Nightowlhoot3 wrote: . Funny thing is? The dang birdbath is in the FRONT yard! :) D'OH!
yeah but all the action is out in back. lol. they prolly know they can get high enuf to avoid the dog and have an interest in your gardening project.
Anyway, they seem quite used to both me and Buck, and willing to share "their" yard with us. They seem to have learned that no matter how close I get, I don't intend them harm:
they would like you to throw some worms in the garden for them, they said to remind you they are not vegetarians:)
I'm guessing this is the daddy:
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Wednesday 13th of May 2009 06:04:13 AM
they are beautiful! they look almost like they are made of china. i was looking at the last pix and wondering what birds you were speaking of and then moved down and saw these!
We DID have one dog bolt "LEAVE IT!" grab the choke chain moment either yesterday, or the day before, but really I think he was just going to go visit them. Their (I presume) parents are never far away, and will often swoop down onto the lawn just a few feet away from Buck, and he doesn't so much as twitch. I THINK these are the same two doves I used to watch out my office window months and months ago on the block wall between me and my neighbors. They still spend time there, as well as on the eletrical line coming into my home. Funny thing is? The dang birdbath is in the FRONT yard! :) D'OH! Anyway, they seem quite used to both me and Buck, and willing to share "their" yard with us. They seem to have learned that no matter how close I get, I don't intend them harm:
I'm guessing this is the daddy:
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Wednesday 13th of May 2009 06:04:13 AM
So ... I guess three days ago, I was out in the back yard watering, and I discovered two very young doves perched on the rattan shelf on the table I have on the improptu sort of patio I have out there. Not skiddish at all -- I could (and did) walk right up to them, and they seemed perturbed not in the slightest. It was a really cool thing, actually, and since that time, EVERY time I've gone into the back yard, they've been there.
I don't know if the dog knows they're there, or not at this point. If so, it doesn't seem to impact them one way or the other.
I LIKE them there, but I also ... well? Compromise is a tricky thing sometimes, I guess. :) It does concern me that they're pretty much settled in right next to the fence, where, if say the dog DID decide to go after them, they'd most certainly be trapped, with no where to flee:
I suppose I should discourage them from calling that bottom shelf "home" but ... I really can't seem to bring myself to do it. Which means, of course, I can't really feel "good" about sitting in that chair there whenever the urge strikes. Well, I COULD, of course, but unlike the human invaders of that space, it seems different with these two, you know? Sorta seems they have as much right to that space in the shade in this 100 degree plus weather as do I, and that I need to respect that.
They're puffed up in their "on alert" mode in the above picture, but you can see how little they really are, when compared to a Christmas light:
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Monday 11th of May 2009 09:53:10 AM
they are beautiful! they look almost like they are made of china. i was looking at the last pix and wondering what birds you were speaking of and then moved down and saw these!
Now, see? I just went back outside and shot this. Shouldn't these birds be NERVOUS about a dog being that close to them?? (BTW -- I've been intenionally not watering the space immediately in front of the patio, because I intend to fill it in with brick.)
So ... I guess three days ago, I was out in the back yard watering, and I discovered two very young doves perched on the rattan shelf on the table I have on the improptu sort of patio I have out there. Not skiddish at all -- I could (and did) walk right up to them, and they seemed perturbed not in the slightest. It was a really cool thing, actually, and since that time, EVERY time I've gone into the back yard, they've been there.
I don't know if the dog knows they're there, or not at this point. If so, it doesn't seem to impact them one way or the other.
I LIKE them there, but I also ... well? Compromise is a tricky thing sometimes, I guess. :) It does concern me that they're pretty much settled in right next to the fence, where, if say the dog DID decide to go after them, they'd most certainly be trapped, with no where to flee:
I suppose I should discourage them from calling that bottom shelf "home" but ... I really can't seem to bring myself to do it. Which means, of course, I can't really feel "good" about sitting in that chair there whenever the urge strikes. Well, I COULD, of course, but unlike the human invaders of that space, it seems different with these two, you know? Sorta seems they have as much right to that space in the shade in this 100 degree plus weather as do I, and that I need to respect that.
They're puffed up in their "on alert" mode in the above picture, but you can see how little they really are, when compared to a Christmas light:
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Monday 11th of May 2009 09:53:10 AM
