Late Bloomers

For those of you faithful viewers… you may remember my post a few months back, called “For the Birds”.  Well those doves who had decided to make their home in the bush next to our pool, aparently decided that it wasn’t good enough for them.  Since then, they have moved 2 more times.  First to the tree next to our bedroom window.  That wasn’t bad.  Listening to doves early in the morning is much better then other noises one might hear in the city/town.  Well that aparently wasn’t too their liking either.  After about a month, they moved again…this time to the Japanese Maple Tree right outside of our back door.  There was a Robin nesting in that tree (which is quite common) and the Robin abandoned the nest.  Aparently she thought that was way to high of a traffic area for her.  So the doves moved into the abandoned nest.  HA HA.  They finally seemed happy.  They don’t seem to mind the high traffic area as long as we don’t bother them. 

Well a couple of days ago, I noticed the mommy looked to be feeding some babies.  So after close (but not to close) examination, I discovered, what looked to be, two baby doves.  Awww…they are soo cute.  Their little fuzzy heads were peaking up out of the nest this morning, when I looked outside. 

I must say, I’m quite happy that this little mommy, who has been nesting all spring and most of the summer, has finally had her babies.  I am really hoping all goes well for them, being late bloomers and all.  The mom rarely leaves her nest.  But I’ve noticed another dove on the fence behind the tree or the top of the garage, so I’m guessing that’s the daddy.  Hopefully he brings food or gives the mom some relief every now and then.