Baby Mourning Doves This Morning!
As I wrote earlier, a pair of mourning doves decided to nest on my front terrace, and the babies hatched yesterday! Sure enough, wikipedia was right, they took about 15 days to hatch.
If you look carefully, you can see some of the action in these videos, shot Friday and this morning. In this first one, after the first shift change of the day, one of the birds seems very agitated and is likely calling for the other (mouth open):
I discovered one of these birds yesterday on my terrace, and ran another time lapse today. Watch around 9 seconds to see that it really is two birds keeping watch on this egg!
It's hard to see, but if you look carefully they are there in the very first frame. I'm posting stills on www.controlgeek.net
And sometime overnight, they managed to throw the egg shells out of the nest. This video's from this morning. If you pause the video around 13 seconds you can see the babies there during the shift change: