Our baby dove Eggbert is growing fast! A few days ago he was out of the nest and on the cage floor for a little while, and today he’s out and about, making it a regular habit. He’s also been eating a little seed on his own, although he’s still getting food from the parents too.
He’s started to get some serious featherage going there, even his tail is more than a stub now, although you can’t see it in the photo. Go Eggbert!
Baby birds sure do grow fast! Eggbert no longer looks like a frosted mini-wheat (beige underneath, sprinkle of white on top) – now he’s almost fully feathered, if lightly!
He’s a little fluff butt now!
So John nicknamed the new baby dove Eggbert and now we can’t call him/her anything else. *grin* Anyway, the mother dove (Freddie) got up off the baby for a few minutes yesterday, so I took the opportunity to try and grab a photo. I had to use the flash since it was early evening, and it’s through the cage bars, but it came out usable anyway. I kept Freddie in the photo as a size comparison – plus, she’s such a pretty white turtle dove!
I think his beak is growing faster than he is! Hard to believe that less than a week ago he was less than an inch long and living inside a shell – nature’s amazing.
I was looking at the doves less than an hour ago – they were both in the nest box, but one of them had their head down. They don’t usually do that, so I looked closer and WOW – there was a baby dove! Must have just hatched! Very hard to get a photo so far – this is the best one we could get right now – sorry about the blurriness, but you can see the little guy there in between the two adults:
There were two eggs, so I wonder if we’ll get a second turtle doveling soon – will keep you posted! 🙂
 I created the Celtic Dog, Celtic Cat, and Celtic Cat & Dog designs in what I’m calling ‘pet-tone’ colors (fur-ish tones), and I tried to capture the playful nature of dogs (check out the little tennis ball by the front feet) as well as the feigned disinterest of cats – this seemed to work just as well when they were put together in the same design as in the separate versions too. (The dog is modeled after our old Labrador Retriever, Pepper, although she was a black lab.) |
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Thanks for looking!
