{"id":1800,"date":"2011-05-13T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T01:05:55","slug":"mourning-doves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-doves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Doves"},"content":{"rendered":"

While these little beauties were eating me out of house and home, I have found a bird seed that they don’t seem to like, Safflower seed. So at least for now they are hanging around hoping I go back to the old seed! No chance of that as the Crows and squirrels don’t like Safflower seed either. Talking about killing 2 birds with one stone, bad pun I know.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Dove on the Grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mourning Doves are usually ground feeders.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Dove on Perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mourning Dove Looking Over its Shoulder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one however, had other ideas!<\/p>\n

Images made with Nikon D3x, 600 f\/4 VR-II w\/TCe 1.4 II on Lexar digital film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While these little beauties were eating me out of house and home, I have found a bird seed that they don’t seem to like, Safflower seed. So at least for now they are hanging around hoping I go back to the old seed! No chance of that as the Crows and squirrels don’t like Safflower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t