You know, "On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me..."
Also known as Mourning Doves, they are gentle and graceful, loyal and monogamous, and desirable as game birds, albeit not in our yard. They love sunflower seeds and we love them for cleaning up the ground underneath the feeders. Their natural camouflage makes them hard to spot. Named for their woeful cry, "woo..oo..oo," we usually hear them first.
