Meet the neighbors....
 

This momma dove had to scramble to build a new nest out of the late-season snow, she found a ladder on my patio tucked under the over hang and let nature take it's course....

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...today I got to watch the babies take their first flights from the ladder to the roof top a few feet away, then onto the swing set across the yard.

Nature ROCKS!

Nice pics, surprised a cat didn't get them.

Very neet, did not take them long to grow. Bob

Bob, they went from egg to first-flight in just a couple of weeks.

Pretty amazing stuff!

Gotta leave the ladder up for next year!!

looks like the makings of a good sammich....

yeah...that's sooo not happening. My wife is already mad because I haven't been letting anyone use the door (or the backyard either) until they've left the nest...which includes yard work, cleaning the patio, AND "PUTTING THAT DANG LADDER UP"!:naughty: :tearhair:

One baby DOVE came back tonight and is sleeping in the nest, the others are prob'ly nearby but nowhere in sight.