Well, not really. These ring-necked doves did not migrate this year, but decided to stay.
Most of them flew away as I got near, but these three stayed…keeping a close eye on the dogs.
Another snow storm is coming in, clouds are building as I write this. We are supposed to get snow Tuesday night of Wednesday morning. Looks like we will have a winter Christmas.
We were going to anyway, but the new snow will freshen up the trompled and walked in snow so we will look nice and clean for the big day.
Terry has gone to a farm sale, that also ’tis the season. I plan on getting all of my holiday baking done and finish up a few things still left to do.
Hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful time of the year.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Brrr…I’ll bet your kitchen will soon smell wonderful
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I think doves in an apricot tree are just as good as a partridge in a pear tree. It sounds as if you are likely to get quite a bit of snow from this storm that’s coming. Stay safe and stay warm.
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Doves have always been one of my favorite birds to hear sing! Hope you are doing good this time of year also!
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Great shot!
Enjoying it as much as I can.
Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!
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Linda, the snow hit here, on Monday, big, and Ethel has been out twice feeding the white winged doves, the yellow winged blackbirds, a couple of woodpeckers, and the chickadees and other small birds that come to her feeder. We’ve got a foot already, and the snow is piling up fast and furious still. Looking up into the Zuni Mountains it is coming down so hard you can hardly make out the pinion and juniper on the lower slopes and cannot make out the ponderosas that line the horizon. I hope you guys have a great Christmas at Pea Green. Winter has set in hard and beautiful. The pinions around the house have branches drooping under the white of mounds of snow. Now is the time for family, remembering all the good, thinking, and writing. Tom
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Hi Linda, Hope you invite the doves inside –and give them a warm place to sleep… ha ha
I’ve probably asked you this before—but how do you like your first Christmas season at home –without having to go to work????? Bet you love it.
Hugs,
Betsy
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I have doves in my yard. I think they are called mourning doves. I know they will not go to a feeder, so I feed on the ground for them. The snow is supposed to slide north of us. I hope the weathermen are right!!
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Neat picture! It’s doves here, too. No snow this storm, but may have a chance this weekend. Did get much needed rain.
Happy baking!! DD and I have cookie baking day Thursday. GS will “help”, too! And then they are making a gingerbread ‘barn’!
Christmas Blessings!
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Wonderful that the Doves are finding refuge in your Apricot tree! We are still mainly brown..it may snow tomorrow..we will see..it is bound to come sooner or later:(
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What’s going on around here anyway? These things are all over and sorry but I am not a huge fan of these. All of a sudden like they just showed up it seems. They can’t even coo very good in fact it’s a little annoying actually. They’re bigger than a mourning dove. Wonder how they taste. Canadians used to migrate through here as well but then they realized blue and rye grass even in a semi-dormant state tastes real good in the winter time on the front range.
Don’t anyone read this wrong as I very much like birds and encourage their habitat here even these ring-necked fellers. Best to all that come by here for the holiday season and coming year!
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Love this! And the dogs too :-). Merry Christmas!
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