We had a new bird show up at our feeding station in May that had us pretty excited. It was clearly a dove, but not one I’d ever seen before.
My daughter did some research and identified it as a mourning dove, and mentioned that we’ve been hearing them many times.
This was when I discovered that a hooting owl sound I remember hearing throughout my childhood growing up here, was not an owl at all, but a mourning dove!
Squiiishy dove!!!
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They’re pretty common around here also. I was creeped out by them in the middle of the night for the longest time, LOL.
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I loved the sound when I was a kid – but I do get why you would have felt that!
I still think they sound like owls. *L*
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They’re common here too. When the wind is calm, they look like painted porcelain “dolls”.
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They do, don’t they!! 🙂
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