RE: ok- this is just unbelievable

Mine look more like sandpipers.... but I am not the greatest on id them...
which is why I am taking this class!

Whatever they are, the babies do hatch, but they are in a fenced in area
(aka veggie garden) so many land predators can't get them.

Donna
Where it is really windy tonight!


> 
> Donna, do you mean killdeer? They nest on the ground and exhibit the
> behaviors you describe. We have them around here, too. I wonder how
> they have survived - not one I have seen nesting has ever had babies
> hatch.
> Cathy
> On Monday, April 25, 2005, at 05:55 AM, Donna wrote:
> 
> > most times they take over any hanging pot. john put
> > the large (like 1 1/2- 2ft) ornaments there this year
> > and pitched the plastic pots. Not sure where my doves
> > are nesting, but I see them around here daily.
> >
> > In my yard, the only bird who normally nests on the
> > ground is the sand something, need more coffee to
> > remember the name... escapes me at the moment. It
> > nests in the pea gravel by my veggie garden. It is the
> > bird that pretends to be hurt when you go near the
> > nest, drawing you to it, rather than the babies...
> > kinds cool how it pretend to have a broken wing.
> >
> > All of my trees have someone's nests too....
> >
> > Donna
> >
> > --- Melody   <mhobertm@excite.com> wrote:
> >> Our garden is home to a returning set of mourning
> >> doves as well...on the
> >> ground in the middle of my daffodils, right under
> >> the cherry
> >> tree...there is a pair that returns to nest in the
> >> same spot there every
> >> year. Is this unusual for birds to nest on the
> >> ground?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Melody
> >> Hills, IA  zone 5
> >
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