DEAR JOAN: I’ve got a dove nesting in my hanging fern basket. The problem is I need to water my fern. I have no idea if the dove has laid eggs or not. Do you have any suggestions? Steve, Bay Area DEAR ...

Mourning Doves Take Over Man’s Shoes and Sweetly Build a Nest in Them originally appeared on PetHelpful. Do you enjoy having birds nest in your yard? Most of us do, but Instagrammer Kristin Merron ...

Last spring, my next-door neighbor and I were blessed with the miracle of mourning dove life. My pair nested in the fork of two limbs in a backyard pyracantha bush, just above eye level. My neighbor’s ...

DEAR JOAN: I am writing in response to Gina’s letter about doves nesting in her plant. I have a beautiful hanging geranium on my porch that’s probably 5 to 6 years old. Until very late last summer, ...

Dove season opens annually in Oklahoma on Sept. 1 and runs through Oct. 30, and for the past several years, David John of Skiatook has noted nesting doves on his property well after shotgun fire ...

DEAR JOAN: Last year, we had doves nesting in a hanging fuchsia. They had four successful hatchings resulting in seven baby doves. The neighborhood kids really enjoyed it. We noticed at the end of ...

Q: A pair of mourning doves nested in a spruce tree in our yard this summer. After a couple weeks of sitting on the nest, one of the doves walked out to the end of a branch with an egg held between ...