A couple of days ago, I found a nest in my front yard. The nest was built on top of the pillar. My place is those weatherboard, heritage looking type. Anyway, I used a ladder to check it out (yes I scared the dove away). There was only one egg.
And today, guess what I found?
Pardon me for the rice. I was trying to feed the mother dove. I see her so poor thing taking care of the eggs. Yes the dove flew away when I attempted to feed it. I almost fell off the ladder.
I cannot wait for them to hatch!!! So cute!!
I just did some research and it is absolutely amazing. When a pair of doves mate, the female one will lay the first egg after 10 days (pretty quick I say). After 24 hours usually, it will lay the second one. It takes about 15 days for the eggs to hatch. What really amazes me is that the couple takes turn to incubate the egg. They got shifts one!!! Male one in the day, female at night! How weird is that? Also I read that if a dove starves for 24 hours, it will die.
Now I know all these, I shouldn't be feeding it with rice. They take turn to find food!!! How stupid am I.
Can't wait to take more pictures when it hatches! It should be end of October. Stay tune for more pictures!
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