Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:59:03 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> The developed areas of the Coachella Valley are home to a surprising
> variety of birds.  We regularly see ravens, hummingbirds, roadrunners,
> California quail, great tailed grackles, mourning doves, rock doves,
> tanagers, and orioles in our yard.  I hadn't been paying much
> attention to them, except to notice that we have mourning doves
> nesting in our lemon tree.

This just in, we also have white-winged mourning doves and Miller's
grackles.  My husband has been studying the bird books and searching
the Web to identify every kind we've seen.

I'm fairly sure there are at least two species of hummingbirds, maybe
three, here, but I don't have a feeder for them, mostly because we're
gone in the summer, and I only see them working the palo verde over
when it's in bloom.

Mary "Does anyone want photos of the birds and plants?"
-- 
Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote re****ts about it.
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