Feathered Friends - Show Me A Photo Contest Round 180

With this week's theme being common birds I decided to show you some pictures of some Mourning doves.

Mourning Doves are among the few birds that stick around year-round. From the early morning hours until dusk these birds can be seen sitting on branches, eating at the feeder, and rummaging around on the ground looking for something to eat. They usually arrive in pairs as they are mates for life.

These birds seem to be grooming themselves all of the time.

Whenever they take flight you would think that they are cooing while flying, but this is not true. The noise doesn’t come from their beaks but rather from their wings as air rushes through their feathers and causes them to vibrate.

When they make their familiar cooing sound it is usually the male attempting to catch the attention of females with their songs.

Mourning doves are an adaptable species, thriving in a wide range of habitats from coast to coast.

Just to give you an idea of just how commonplace these birds are in our neck of the woods here is a pic that I took a few years ago from our kitchen window. During the winter months, I like to scatter birdseed on our front deck. Before long a flock of these resilient birds are all over the place,

Thank you @melinda010100 @barbara-orenya and @nelinoeva for another #featheredfriend adventure, #SMaP 180.