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Steve Sprengel | profile | all galleries >> My Favorites >> Birds >> Mourning Dove Rescue tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Mourning Dove Rescue

My wife noticed two mourning dove chicks on the driveway when she took out some trash in the morning.

For the first day we created a makeshift nest and raised it higher throughout the day.
0193 - Day 1Initial Discovery
0193 - Day 1
Initial Discovery		 1234 - Day 1Watchful Parents
1234 - Day 1
Watchful Parents		 1253 - Day 1First Stage Nest
1253 - Day 1
First Stage Nest		 1261 - Day 1Second Stage Nest
1261 - Day 1
Second Stage Nest
1267 - Day 1Third Stage Nest
1267 - Day 1
Third Stage Nest		 1276 - Day 1Sense of Scale
1276 - Day 1
Sense of Scale		 1315 - Day 1
1315 - Day 1		 1338 - Day 1
1338 - Day 1
1364 - Day 1Alert
1364 - Day 1
Alert		 1369 - Day 1
1369 - Day 1		 1390 - Day 1Bedtime
1390 - Day 1
Bedtime		 1487 - Day 2More Natural Nest
1487 - Day 2
More Natural Nest
1635 - Day 2Atop a Ladder
1635 - Day 2
Atop a Ladder		 1647 - Day 3More Feathers
1647 - Day 3
More Feathers		 1658 - Day 4
1658 - Day 4		 1659 - Day 4Defensive Gesture
1659 - Day 4
Defensive Gesture
1731 - Day 5
1731 - Day 5		 1738 - Day 6Alert Chick
1738 - Day 6
Alert Chick		 1758 - Day 6One Gone
1758 - Day 6
One Gone		 1765 - Day 7Empty Nest
1765 - Day 7
Empty Nest

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Taylor A 10-Sep-2007 01:08
I found one baby mourning dove out on a front lawn and my dad and I took it in. We took care of it for about 5 days. When we took it in it was only about 4 days old. it died in the morning of day 5 or 6.it died right in my hands. It started of fine but the night before it was cold. We put a blanket over it but it seemed to have crawled out of it in the middle of the night. it was wheezing after my parents had fed and then as i said, died in my hands....about 1 hour after. Could i have prevented it?
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