This Bar Shouldered Dove has been ‘pottering’ around the hanging pots for weeks.
It will sit in one for a while and then move onto another.
Sometimes it makes a cooing noise and sometimes not.
I don’t know if it’s thinking about nesting …………… but it must have missed those lessons……….
In an orchid pot
In an episcia pot
A bit hard to see but in a miniature wandering jew pot
Eeeewwwwwwoooooo
Not the only one confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could be checking out potential nest sites I suppose, or maybe it is keeping your plants insect free?
bluegreen said:
Could be checking out potential nest sites I suppose, or maybe it is keeping your plants insect free?
Or maybe it’s a klutz………………….
There are 1 or 2 others here ;^ P
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.
Rats used to run down the chain and eat the eggs though.
bon008 said:
Where did you grow up bon008?
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.Rats used to run down the chain and eat the eggs though.
Crinkle said:
bon008 said:
Where did you grow up bon008?
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.Rats used to run down the chain and eat the eggs though.
In Floreat, a “garden” suburb of Perth.
bon008 said:
Crinkle said:
bon008 said:
Where did you grow up bon008?
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.Rats used to run down the chain and eat the eggs though.
In Floreat, a “garden” suburb of Perth.
Ahhhh……………… well that explains it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Wulagi known as ‘the leafy surburb’.
Having said that, birds nesting in pot plants is a first for me. Time will tell……………….
Definitely doing real estate study!
Crinkle said:
bon008 said:
Crinkle said:
bon008 said:
Where did you grow up bon008?
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.Rats used to run down the chain and eat the eggs though.
In Floreat, a “garden” suburb of Perth.
Ahhhh……………… well that explains it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Wulagi known as ‘the leafy surburb’.
Having said that, birds nesting in pot plants is a first for me. Time will tell……………….
My dad had a big old pot out the back with a bougainvillia (sp??) in it.. also housed a huge family of mice which would come streaming up out of the tunnels in the potting mix if you poured water into it grin
They’d sit in the lattice and wait until the water stopped before going back home..
This was in City Beach – a very coastal suburb.
I’ve had them nesting in an Orchid and a Nodding Violet. This year I’m doing patrols of pots to prevent it. We only get Blackbirds doing it and they are ferals.
Gotago. BBL.
bon008 said:
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.
the must have seemed like ready-made nests :D
bluegreen said:
bon008 said:
When I was growing up, the doves nested in our hanging baskets every year.
the must have seemed like ready-made nests :D
Yep – I dunno about your fancy eastern states doves, but here in Perth the doves make really shoddy nests, so the babies would usually be much safer in a hanging basket! :D
I need another in my cherry tree this year, make for a great crop LOL
What a pretty bird…….