Bird Family

Just wanted to give a little update on our bird Family. I did a little research on Wikipedia and found out that our birds are Morning Doves. Apparently they are the most abundant of all North American birds. These birds are monogomous and share parenting responsibilities equally. In fact, they take turns sitting on the eggs. On average, the female bird lays 2 eggs at a time, up to 6 times/year. The father sits on the eggs from morning until afternoon and the mother takes the afternoon until the next morning shift.
I actually saw our birds switch yesterday at 4:09pm.
So it will be two weeks in total that the parents keep their eggs warm before we hear the chipping of the little ones. It's been 5 days so far.

On a different note, but still about birds. We put up a bird feeder about two days before our Morning doves choose our tree to build their nest in. B and I filled the feeder yesterday and within four hours, it was completely empty! A lot of the seed has ended up on the ground and I saw a baby bunny eating some seed tonight after a rain shower.

I'm really enjoying the wildlife in our backyard along with all the greenery from the spring rains!