Mourning Dove breast torn open, had it's innards exposed.

2010 - When I walked near, she didn't move. I threw some seeds, she didn't move. Threw more, they hit her, she didn't move, something wrong.  After a bit she started walking toward the street. Tried to fly but couldn't, so I herded her into the grass, caught her with a fish net.

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Then I discovered what was wrong. Just a baby, badly injured and weak. Her breast had been torn open exposing her innards. I got her some water, Very thirsty, extremely thirsty, dehydrated, she perked up immediately but wouldn't eat. She was still bleeding a bit. I cleaned her up and she seemed like she'd survive. Should have stitches, but I will watch her, should be ok? 

Doing pretty good now, healing well, new skin even some new feathers on her belly  As soon as she's old enough to fly and then in a few days after when healed enough, I'll let her go.

Just before release... She was very Very healthy, fully feathered, and anxious to be free.(VIDEO)

Good luck little bird. Come back and visit someday  (VIDEO). 

(the Chicken wire was temporary)

Good news, she DID come back and visit... I'm sure it was her ~:<)

Checking out the intruders, Quail in the Dove Aviary

Checking out the intruders. First time for the baby Quail in their new home in the Doves Aviary. The Doves are most curious, but don't seem to care. Seem they will get along fine together.

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Stuff my sweet little Dove cleaned off my desk. She's mischievous and gets bored.

Henry is visiting for the day... Getting to know the birds.

Henry is visiting for the day... Getting to know the birds. . . . . I coudn't decide which pictures I liked the best (all of them). Which do YOU like the best.

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Henry and Mini Dove

Henry retrieved the egg from the nest, now wants it to hatch.

Henry and Jet Dove

She picked out all the red Lucky-Charms hearts and handed them to me.

So I sit at my computer munching on various (dry) breakfast cereals one piece at a time from a hand full. Spot, the 100% pure white Dove always lands on my hand to see what I’m eating, if she likes it she steals some (WHOooo HOooOoo she says). 

Today, Valentines Day, I was eating "Lucky Charms" and she came and picked out ALL the little red marshmallow hearts and held them up for me to take (they were too big for her to eat)..until all the red hearts were gone. Isn’t she sweet? (Repost from 2 yrs ago)

She helps me type... and is not a very good speller.

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Spot always has to check out what I'm eating or drinking.

Spot laughs at her own jokes

Spot Dove is always happy. She's always having fun (video, turn sound up a bit). Everything is exciting to her. She is very adventurous, always getting into mischief, then she laughs. Shelled sunflower seeds are her favorite treat, kinda like dessert. (Video Spot on hand in front of fireplace)

Right now though she is sound asleep laying on her side on the F5 thru F8 keys. Can you hear her snoring?

Spot has a spot in my lucky-charms heart.

So I sit at my computer munching on various (dry) breakfast cereals one piece at a time from my hand. Spot, the 100% pure white Dove always lands on my hand to see what I’m eating, if she likes it she steals some (WHOooo HOooOoo she says).
Today, Valentines day, I was eating "Lucky Charms" and she came and picked out all the little red marshmallow hearts and held them out to me (they were too big for her to eat)..until all the red hearts were gone. Isn’t she sweet?

Ace has a girlfriend on the side.

(Ace takes over Bert’s blog).
Who wouldn't love her?  She always wants my attention and she’s so beautiful and sweet and kind and gentle and she loves me and keeps me smiling and entertained, nibbles on my ear, and she’s inexpensive to keep and doesn’t ever argue or disagree.
I was reclining in my 1974 Mustang chair with my feet up on the desk, knees slightly elevated, reading some City documents. I was perusing thru a stapled packet of papers when all of a sudden in a flash, a very dramatically "POP", over the top of the papers comes a Dove head from behind the papers with her beak hanging over the top of the papers. While she’s standing on my knees and on her toes, stretching, she stares at me. It was as if she was saying "Boooo" and waiting for my reaction. So I pretended I was scared and continued reading.
A minute later I had unfolded a blueprint and was holding it in the air in front of me looking at it when out of nowhere this Dove lands at the top and skillfully slides all the way down holding her wings up over her back as if she was downhill skiing saying "Wooooooo HooOOOooooo" as she lands in my lap. Then she looks up at me, smiling "DID you SEE what I just DID". She does this on purpose as I’ve seen her slide down slippery magazine covers too.









Out of a loose stack of 8.5x11 papers, she pulls one out and flings it on the floor "Wooooooo HooOOOoooo".
It’s not just what she does that’s so entertaining, it’s how she "talks" while doing it, she talks a LOT. Whenever she lands on something "Woooo Hooo Hooo Hooo hooooooo". If it was an especially risky or -daring maneuver she says "WOOOOooo HooOOOoooooo". Sometimes she just talks to herself with tiny little short muffled cooing sounds. Every time she lands on Ace it’s "Wooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo HOOOooooooooooooo".


Her flying skills are amazing. She can hover like a helicopter or hummingbird, rise up and down and land almost anywhere. Also she has landing skills, like on the small round slippery plastic dome of Ace’s computer microscope. Very talented. She lands on the sloped arm of a lamp and slides down to the bottom "Wooooo HooOOOOooooooo".
Whenever Ace leaves the room after about 5 minutes she "yells" rather loudly and mournfully "Woo……. Hoo Hoo Hoo..oo..oo..o…o…." and sits on Ace's chair until Ace returns.
Ace hugs her a lot. One time, Ace hadn’t shaved for a few days and hugged her. Apparently she got stabbed in the eye with whiskers and walked around looking like a one eyed pirate (one eye closed) for an hour. Then she was fine.
Karen takes Spot in the shower with her to bathe. She doesn’t seem to care if she is in a torrential rain storm, she just sits quietly on the shower floor until it’s over then I dry her (the Dove) with a hair dryer, she seems to like that. Link = Wet-Spot Dry-Spot
She likes to peck at a sound activated Disco lite on Aces desk. Every time she pecks it flashes. One time it was not turned on and she stared at it and pecked harder and harder. Ace finally turned it on again, then she was happy.
I hope this gets to you cause now she's trying to pull wires out of the modem. She's tugging so hard.
She was standing on my hand, each foot on a different finger as I spread them. Her body sank lower and lower until she was doing the splits. No problem, she just sat there looking very uncomfortable but didn’t care.
Now she just finished her Yoga stretch routine, which she does about 5 times a day( Left wing left foot stretch, then Right wing/foot stretch, then both wings touching over her back, followed by a big eyes-closed yawn, and shakes her head slightly).
She can see out the windows but rarely pays any attention to the outside. Yesterday I was outside and looked toward the window and there she was resting on the window sill, motionless, kinda napping but watching me work in the yard, waiting for me to return. It was obvious she was a lonesome Dove.
She seems to know that pressing the "Eject" button on the keyboard will open the DVD drive, she turns to watch it open.
Now she’s on my shoulder nibbling on my ear.
She likes to walk around on the floor too and often goes for a stroll around the office, rearranging all the computer wires.
Ace has some "bird toys" on his desk for her. One is a garland of autumn leaves. She sometimes shapes them into a "nest" and naps between Ace and the monitor.






She spends most of her time sitting on the back of the keyboard pecking at keys but often will settle down there, fluffs herself up and take a nap. Ace just nudges her to get at the top keys.
Ace has a floating keyboard, tensioned to support the two keyboards. At 5 ounces Spot is just heavy enough to hop on it and ride it down like an elevator and she does this frequently ("Woooo HooOOOooo" she says). She likes to nap on the back of Ace’s chair too.
If Ace hasn’t paid attention to her for a while, she flies in front of Ace’s face brushing him with her wingtip, then lands in front and stares back ("Wooo Hooo", "I’m here").
She LOVES rubber bands and shakes them violently until they are totally dead then she tosses them as far as she can ("Woo Hoo hooo hooo" as she congratulates herself). I'll just pick up the 5 pens, 2 flashlights, several paper clips, an insulator, a bottle cap, 3 pieces of wire, a key chain, 2 batteries, an empty box, several keys, string, and 2 rubber bands that she threw on the floor, then back to work.
Now she’s pecking at the cursor (Ha ha I keep moving it)…
The 100% totally pure white Dove is named Spot because… I can never find her when I walk into the room. She finds some tiny places to hide sometimes, so I just glance around looking for the white Spot in the room.
Ace’s wife Karen came into Ace’s office and says to Ace "It’s hard to take you seriously with a bird sitting on your head". Karen brought Ace a plate of "Pilaf " with lots of natural grains (Looks just like birdseed) and Spot insisted it was for her, kept trying to hop on to the edge of the plate ("Woo HOO HOO HOO"), very persistent.







On my desk there is a Dove perch supported by two vertical bars about 2-1/2" apart. She could have easily walked around it but… Noooooo, she has to struggle to squeeze and squirm and twist between the bars almost gets stuck, but then Wooooo HooOOOoooo on the other side (" I did it"). Show-off.  She loves a challenge.
She seems to understand the word "Treat" because she then zooms down to Ace’s hand. Or, sometimes she sits in front of Ace and silently STARES at the treat container (She makes it quite clear) until Ace finally gives her some treats.
Today she learned to say a new word…. A very very quiet "mmmmmm….". I’m not sure yet but I think it means "Good, or Great, or Fine, OK"…
Sometimes she sits on Ace’s hand while he’s typing… she just goes along for the ride swaying back and forth as Ace’s hands move around, it seems to be a challenge for her. Then she’ll walk up his arm usually to his shoulder and takes a nap.
Now she’s settling down on the keyboard above the number pad and fluffing up, and her eyes tell me she is getting very sleepy and ready for another of her many daily naps. Now her eyes are closed. She fluffs up to nearly twice her normal size. Sound asleep. She takes afternoon "Siesta’s" of about 1 to 2 hours a few times each day. She is SOOOooooo sound asleep now. In case you’re wondering, no, she doesn’t snore.






If you’re still reading this…. I could go on writing indefinitely because she is non-stop active always finding new and creative ways to make Ace smile and laugh. She’s such a sweetie.

Lonesome Dove and Mashed Potatoes

Spot, the 100% pure white Dove is getting to be like a hyperactive child. (as told by Ace)
She is getting more and more mischievous. Right now she's doing one of her most favorite things, she is mutilating a dead chicken.. one of those fake rubber ones. She has decided it's fun to pick at it's Feet and watch it squirm. She has learned to torture it and roll it around while standing on it like a lumberjack in a log-rolling contest.

She stands on it as if in triumph over it, pretending she's a "Chicken-slayer" and picking at the poor dead thing then watching it wiggle it in it's death throes. She's getting into trouble more and more frequently. She just knocked over a bunch, a stack of AA rechargeable batteries, sounded like a shelf collapsed. She went down with it but landed on top (flew).
It's like she went from a sweet cuddly irresistible little cooing baby directly into her "terrible two's" and now is a reckless carefree crazy teenager, and she coos so sweetly while being mischievous. She is SOOOoooo bold and confident of herself. She's quite a risk-taker. She even harasses Tuna the cat. She seems to thrive on a challenge and has no fear of anything and she gets quite stubborn too.
I have had to rescue her quite a few times when she gets in trouble, then she gets embarrassed, then she hates it when I laugh at her. She flies away and sulks for a while. Apologizing to her does no good.
Spot and I have totally bonded, Inseparable. Never more than an arms length away or sitting on the back of the 1974 Mustang chair


She talks (coos) a lot. She has learned how to tell me what she wants or needs (like food/water, treats, etc). She sits on the edge of my desk STAREing at the little container of her favorite treat, until I give in and give some to her. She flies to my hand before I can even open the container.
It's bad enough having Bert the Chicken pushing me around and telling me what to do, now I have a smart-ass little 4oz Dove doing the same thing. She often sits up high in the open door of her castle cooing and smugly surveying her personal private kingdom (including her serfs = Ace) as if she is the ultimate "King of the world". SO proud of herself.
But mostly she is still a very sweet gentle peaceful Dove who loves to sit on the keyboard or my hands, arms or shoulder and nibbles at me, and then settles down fluffs herself up and takes a nap. She is very loving, sweet, gentle and affectionate, a treasure and a pleasure to have around. Always comical and entertaining.
SHE:
Loves to sit on Ace's chair and pull his hair.
Loves to sit on the keyboard, stomp on the backspace key and erase all that Ace has written.



Loves to sit in front of the monitor, block the view, and read your blogs.
Slides down a slippery magazine cover just for fun.
Landed on a model of the International Space Station hanging from the ceiling and broke it.
Peeked into a web cam and got her eye broadcast on the internet.
Chases away the cursor on the monitor and tries to catch it.
Sits on the mouse to keep it from moving.
Throws SD memory chips on the floor.
Tries to yank cables from the computer.
Landed in my mashed potatos. Mashed potato on her beak

Actually likes to be hugged, then she coos like a Dove.
Below are examples of her typing skills (compiled from various sessions)
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwsssdddddd
and pppprrrrrrrrrdddddyy-bbbiiiiirrrdyyyyy (Just kidding).
She's taking another nap now. Ace is sad because he and Karen are going to the Bayfield Apple Festival Fri-Sun and Spot may be a lonesome dove. Ace and the Dove have never been separated that long. Ace will be lonesome too.