[TN-Bird] Re: New Yard Bird but Mixed Emotions

Welcome to the club.  I, too,have mixed emotions about mine here in the 
Charlotte Park section of West Nashville.  It has gotten to the point now that 
I 
almost always have from one to six Eurasian collared doves either on the deck 
dining or in the tree behind the deck "digesting" between feedings.  Looks as 
if 
they have "moved in" as permanent boarders at Dee's "Smorgabird."  They are 
still quite wary and fly up into the trees or to a wire when they detect any 
movement by the poodles or me inside the house.  The other birds are used to us 
and only fly off in a flurry when a predator appears overhead.
 
Earlier today, a courting pair copulated on a large limb of the tree behind 
the deck.  Do Eurasians do a second nesting?  I am assuming that this pair must 
have that in mind.  I  think the extra three that have been showing up must 
be the product of this pair.  I also have one bird that has been odd-man-out 
with three doves seen before the three offsping (maybe?) showed up earlier this 
week. They like to perch on the bare branches of my hackberry tree.  A few 
limbs died after hungry squirrels stripped them of their bark last winter.
GO Birders!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN



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