United We Are Warm

February 27, 2010
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It was a chilly Saturday morning when I got up and heard the rain drops outside. I peek outside the window without my glasses and saw an odd blurry object which I know wasn’t a fixture in our patio. Hurriedly, I put my glasses on and saw this

Attention! Line up please!

United we are warm

These are Mourning Doves or Rain Dove or also known as the Western Turtle Doves. The plumage is generally light gray-brown and the wings have black spotting. The eye is a distinctive crescent-shaped, with light skin surrounding them.

This is how it looks like. This photo was taken last October.

coo-OO-oo

The rain stopped, gloomy clouds almost clearing up and the sun shining through. The mourning doves started to stretch their wings and shake their heads. Probably they’ve decided that the warming session is over and so they moved on to the next activity: Quest for breakfast ^_^

Ok, warming session dismissed!

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