Tag Archive > doves

Hatchlings

The dovelings have come out from their eggs! And they’re not ducks. They’re doves, as they should be.
Huge doves — I thought they were born Sunday, because that was the first day I saw them, but I’m starting to think they hatched before that. Because they’re huge. Just too big to have [...]

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The Ugly Dovelings

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, [...]

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Dovetailing

LR is aware that she owes her faithful readers (whoever ye may be; as only one or two of you ever comments, she knoweth not to whom the term readership extends) another post about the San Antonio vacation, but in the meantime, she would like to share a miracle that has occurred at the Burt [...]

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