Ten Years Later: Mourning Dove

This is a pretty common bird in our neighborhood, and back when we moved here in 2009 we saw it in the yard pretty often. But several years ago, back when I started compiling photos of the different yardbird species (which now runs to fifty-seven), I realized it was the only confirmed species for which I had never posted a photo. It seems that in the years we've lived here the yard has grown more overgrown and enclosed, a change which the other birds prefer, but which has kept this one away. Anyway, today one dropped in, so I finally have a photo of it to complete the collection. Mourning dove, backyard Olympia.

 

1. dark-eyed juncos

2. chestnut-backed chickadees

3. black-capped chickadees

4. red-breasted nuthatches

5. spotted towhees

6. red-breasted robins

7. pine-siskins

8. bushtits

9. golden-crowned kinglets

10. ruby-crowned kinglets

11. brown creepers

12. crows

13. flickers

14. downy woodpeckers

15. red-breasted sapsuckers

16. starlings

17. mourning doves

18. eurasian collard doves

19. rufous hummingbirds

20. anna's hummingbirds

21. house finches

22. gold finches

23. black-headed grosbeaks

24. evening grosbeaks

25. brewer's blackbirds

26. stellar's jays

27. california/scrub jays

28. fox-sparrows

29. golden-crowned sparrows

30. song-sparrows

31. house sparrows

32. white-crowned sparrows

33. chipping sparrows

34. varied thrushes

35. hermit thrushes

36. orange-crowned warblers

37. yellow-rumped warblers

38. wilson's warblers

39. townsend's warblers

40. MacGillivray's wablers

41. black-throated gray warblers

42. bewick's wrens

43. pacific wrens

44. cedar waxwings

45. western wood pewees

46. cooper's hawks

47. lazuli buntings

48. hutton's vireos

49. pacific slope flycatchers

50. western tanagers

51. lesser goldfinches

52. white-throated sparrows

53. lincoln's sparrows

54. purple finches

55. warbling vireos

56. brown-headed cowbirds

57. sharp-shinned hawks

Done