It's pretty darn cold this morning. As I looked out the window into the back yard, I noticed my reliable friends, the mourning doves, perched in the oak tree. Eyeing up the bird feeder, I thought. It seemed they looked especially well fed. We do go through a lot of bird seed, especially with impending storms on the way. 
I had picked up my binocs for a closer view.Then it dawned on me. They looked so fat because their feathers were all fluffed up against the cold. They truely are the birds of peace. Once, I saw a rowdy blue jay land on the platform where a dove was feeding. It screeched a lot, stuckout its tongue and adopted several threatening posititions.The dove basically ignored the jay, turned its backseveral times as if to say, "get a life buster." I like mourning doves. Coo Coo. 
What great photos and a cute story about the blue jay being put in his place!!!
ReplyDeleteI love to watch the doves in our yard also.
Have a nice day.
Good to hear the doves can stand up to those bossy jays.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day, TB!
I think of them as peaceful birds too. Love their blue eye ring.
ReplyDeleteThey are a sign of peace. They have a pretty mellow nature. Really like that last shot, TB. We have minus 15 this morning...Antelope are spotted everywhere by the hundreds - they'll start dying if they don't find some browse pretty soon. We just have way too much snow.
ReplyDeleteI love MODOs too. They look like little balls in winter.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful and serene birds - completely opposite to Bluejays! It's amazing how the birds puff up for winter!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful pictures and a great commentary. The doves are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI like doves, too, and you have some great photos! Cute story - and yes, I think that ignoring the Blue Jay works better than confronting him. ha.
ReplyDeleteYour doves are certainly wearing their "winter coats!" Brrr!
Great pics. Here in Utah we are being over taken with Asian Ring Neck Doves. The mourning doves are moving out. Sad.
ReplyDeleteOne of the earlier of birdcalls I learned was a dove, and they often call back.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds....and they have more color than you think.
ReplyDeleteGood old reliable Mourning Doves.There is something comforting about seeing them in the winter months.-Nice post.
ReplyDeleteThey are gentle and beautiful, too. Must be very cold for them to puff up so much.
ReplyDeleteI like our doves as well, but sure don't like it when they're on the ground and I walk near them and take off with all that fluttering then I get cooed at.
ReplyDeleteSure gives the old heart a jolt.
I have these in town. They call all summer and they readily eat at my birdfeeder tray.
ReplyDeleteI must disagree with the "birds of peace" notion. Around here they can be downright hostile & brutal--not only with one another, but with the other birds, too!
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