Mark Phinney wrote:
> For some reason, I get a distinct 'dove' impression from those
> feathers...
That's pretty much what I concluded after first collecting the
whole mess of feathers in a ziplock, and then observing the doves
that hang out by the back door feeder and waddle about. A bit
of Googling make me think they're mourning doves... which ever
species they are they're very common here year around. I've never
seen them fight other than politely, and the feathers were too
close to the house to have been the neighborhood hawk's doing,
so I figure it was a cat or perhaps a molting fit.
Martyn Stewart wrote:
> Where do you live Mike?
Champaign Illinois USA ... 40N 88W
> I see Maple leaves, possible mountain and quercus
> (oak) leaves so are you in a deciduous wood area?
Except for stream bottoms and the occasional deciduius grove,
it wants to be tall grass prairie here, but the corn/bean
farmers won't let it. The last several glaciers put 350 feet
of till into the Mahomet River valley. The trees are pretty
much all residential plantings.
> By the way, it is bloody March and you really should have cleaned
> them up by now!! I know of a good landscaping service :)
The bloody March winds replace whatever I rake up.
Thanks for the help and the community. Gotta get some more
recordings of the screech owls and the woodpeckers that have
been jackhammering the canopy... I have a hard time spotting
them, but they seem to like sycamore trees.
-- Mike
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