The other day I went outside to check the mail, and saw that somehow, without my having been aware of it, the dove eggs in our bathroom window ledge had hatched!
Apparently quite a while ago, as the dovelings were huge.
And not, in fact, dovelings.
They were ducklings.
Brown ducklings, with barely any yellow down left on them, because they were several weeks old. Two brown ducklings, perched on the bathroom window ledge beside their rather bewildered-looking dove mother who didn’t have a big enough nest for them.
Rather bewildered myself, I ran back inside for the camera and to tell Mr. Burt that somehow our dove had bred with a duck.
And then I woke up.
I went downstairs to the half-bath, stood on the toilet so I could see out the little porthole window, and saw the mama dove sitting on her nest, from which she hasn’t budged in nearly three weeks. Our dovelings haven’t hatched.
But they will soon!
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