{"id":176,"date":"2008-02-29T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-02-29T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T18:51:00","slug":"mourning-doves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Doves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <em>lot<\/em> of birds around here.  We live at the edge of a small creek with a stand of woods across it on one side and the open fields and meadows of a farm on the other.  Our feeder draws all different kinds of birds, all day, every day.  Nearly anytime you look out there though, you will find some of these:  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNVP9O59I\/AAAAAAAAA8w\/_Ige-IZOK8g\/s1600-h\/dove03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNVP9O59I\/AAAAAAAAA8w\/_Ige-IZOK8g\/dove03.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172469199490967506\" \/><\/a>Mourning Doves mate for life and stay here for the winter, rather than migrate &#8211; it is not unusual to see 20 to 30 of them arrayed in the surrounding trees.  They hang out under the feeder long enough to pick up a bunch of seeds from the ground and then roost in the trees while they chew them up.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNU_9O58I\/AAAAAAAAA8o\/TrNMP-QpXgg\/s1600-h\/dove02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNU_9O58I\/AAAAAAAAA8o\/TrNMP-QpXgg\/dove02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172469195196000194\" \/><\/a>They hold still long enough so that even I can get sharp shots of them.  It was 10 below when I took these pics this morning.  It didn&#8217;t seem to bother the doves though. <a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNFv9O57I\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/Wj0B7gsS6ik\/s1600-h\/dove01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172468933202995122\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R8hNFv9O57I\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/Wj0B7gsS6ik\/dove01.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The cold weather didn&#8217;t bother me either, since I am willing to suffer in order to bring these lovely photos to you.  Yep &#8211; I was out there in the freezing cold, snapping away before I even finished one cup of coffee.  Okay, okay &#8211; I was standing in my kitchen and took these through the window.  Going outdoors would scared them away.  Not to mention freezing my tushie off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lot of birds around here. We live at the edge of a small creek with a stand of woods across it on one side and the open fields and meadows of a farm on the other. Our feeder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}