When out and about the other day, Terry, Boomer and I came upon a new bird. A couple of pretty little doves. I took a photo of them, but it turned out too dark to use. Then two or three days ago a reader, OneFly, sent me a photo of the same doves in his area down in the corner of our state
He asked me if I had
He asked me if we had any of these birds up here.
Surprisingly we just had just seen some.
Then yesterday, OneFly sent me the answer: They called Inca Doves, and they ARE new to our area!
How very cool this is. I hope they hang around and find our neck of the world to their liking!
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
For Linda to see these little doves in Delta is very neat. They are out of their range according to the map by several hundred miles. Maybe they are very tough for their size and can kick out the unwanted invasive Eurasion Collared Dove.
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I hope they can! I like them so much better. I even like their call ever so much better!
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Their call must be like their size – yet to hear one but I can’t hear rattle snakes either.
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Loved it on the website!
A true cooing sound.
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That is so cool! I would love to see such a bird!
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It’s a first for me!
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Interesting!
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How cool!! We only have mostly the ring-necked dove here with just a few white-winged dove. The ringed-necks have chased almost all of the Mourning Doves. Would love to see and hear an Inca Dove!!
Blessings!
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We’ve lost our Mourning Doves and all other doves, hope these birds chase the Ringed-Necked doves and their raucous call way!
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we see incas here on occasion – rarely, though.
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It’s a first for me.
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They must love your lovely farm
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I hope so!
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Congratulations on your lucky find!
Have a blessed week and thank you for all you do!
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How interesting! We used to have mourning doves but the collared doves moved in and the lovely little mourning doves left. I miss them. Your new doves sound very interesting!
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The collared doves either killed or ran off all our Mourning Doves also. Bad birds. 😦
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We have some Mourning Doves but I think they have left for the winter. Isn’t it fun to get different birds! 🙂
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It is! I miss the Mourning Doves.
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We. Have a lot of the little gray doves here in Florida and a couple of hawks that really like them. They feed in our yard a lot and then I see a hawk swoop down and grab one. I put bread out for the birds but find the doves only like it crumbled very fine into crumbs.
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I hope these stay and DO NOT become food for the predators.
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What a sweet little bird. I love doves. I never see them in Milan, but I see them in France all the time. How do you all account for the arrival of the new bird?
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I don’t know. I just hope they stay. It is the first time we’ve ever seen them.
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I think it fair to say they are being influenced by climate change. Not long ago a couple species of fish found in the tropics were see north of California.
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Must be…I’m glad I got to see them
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