The Beauty Around Us

Mourning Dove

By Linda G. on March 1, 2016

A couple days ago, while outside with my husband, I happened to look across two neighbors’ back yards to their back yard neighbor’s side yard and way up into a tree.  I don’t know what caused me to look over that way.  I don’t recall seeing motion of any kind.  I saw something in the tree.  I asked my husband if he saw anything in the tree.  He said that he didn’t see anything.  The tree was pretty far off, so I thought perhaps what I was seeing was a hawk.  I went inside our house for my camera.  I had to change to a telescopic lens.  With my naked eye, I still could make out something in the tree.  I held the camera up to my eye, looking through the telescopic lens.  Yes, there WAS something in the tree.  As it turned out, the something was not a hawk.  It was a mourning dove.  The photograph displayed above was not taken from our yard.  I walked across two neighbors back yards to capture this photograph.  I do like to capture a photograph of a bird in its natural habitat, as opposed to at a bird feeder.