Comments on: Swarm of Mourning Doves https://www.matthewbey.com/swarm-of-mourning-doves/ This one guy, you know? Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: m_bey https://www.matthewbey.com/swarm-of-mourning-doves/#comment-418 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:50:14 +0000 http://www.matthewbey.com/?p=154#comment-418 looking back on this post with new eyes, I have to admit that these are not actually mourning doves, but are white-winged doves, which are slightly larger and only common in the American Southwest.

]]> By: m_bey https://www.matthewbey.com/swarm-of-mourning-doves/#comment-72 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:19:01 +0000 http://www.matthewbey.com/?p=154#comment-72 I used to really like mourning doves. But that was back in Wisconsin where they are relatively rare. Here in Austin I’ve sat on a back porch and been unable to hear the sound of traffic over the coo-ing of the doves.

These days I’m all about the Inca doves. They’re smaller, almost always travel in pairs, they have lovely rubble-pattern feathers, and you hardly ever see them. They also look a lot less like pigeons.

]]> By: chris https://www.matthewbey.com/swarm-of-mourning-doves/#comment-69 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:45:41 +0000 http://www.matthewbey.com/?p=154#comment-69 my parents are really into feeding birds, but they have some elaborate hierarchy by which they rank how worthy different types of birds are to eat the food they put out. some birds they’ll ooh and aah, and some they’ll bang the window to try and scare away. “i can’t believe those #$(*&@# s are eating the suet again!”

i dont know where morning doves are on their list.

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