Moms -- they're all around us. Remember, Mother's Day is May 11.
Since the subject of the picture is so difficult to make out I'm breaking the Wordless Wednesday code.
See the bird that might be a mourning dove? She and her significant other built a nest on the downspout outside my bathroom window. For nearly a week she's been facing the other direction so all I've been able to see is a birdy tushie, but this morning she turned around and I saw for the first time that she wasn't a robin, as I'd expected.
Here's how I think she might look in real life:
Considering that I took the photo in the morning, it might actually be Dad sitting on the nest, because according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
"A Mourning Dove pair rarely leaves its eggs unattended. The male usually incubates from midmorning until late afternoon, and the female sits the rest of the day and night."
The nest is in the best of all possible places because we can observe the little darlings when they hatch; their chirping won't be an annoyance because I'm not in that bathroom during the day when they'll be awake, and by the time I go to bed they'll be long asleep.
There should be two babies; I think I'll call them "The Coo Coo Pigeon Sisters."
Even if they're boys.
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