UPDATED...Tuesday Tails. Birds and tiny torts up out of the sand.

The newest members of the dove family are calling out to their parents in their short, baby coos.  They are on the roof of the eaves just outside the window of the room I'm in right now.  It's evening and soon the babies will have to brave another night.   Last night one of them wanted to bed down right outside my sliding glass door.  I shooed it away so that it would find a better and safer place to roost for the night.  Mourning doves are prolific, and it's a good thing.

Mourning Doves, very closely related to the Passenger Pigeon,  face feral cats while trying to raise their fledglings, who always go to ground when they leave the nest.  Cats, both roaming pets and feral, are a predator the doves were not faced with until about 200 years ago.  Doves are thousands of years old as a species.

We also have a House Wren who is keeping a night nest in one of the ferns.  I saw and heard it last evening while sitting quietly by an open slider screen.  Birds are just the best thing to watch!

I love Cornell's Bird ID Pages - Whoot!  Wait, that's an owl.

Here's a Little Cutie for your Cuteness file.  I know you all have one.  What better use of the web is there?

And Thank you's go to Diana, a reader, who sent this to me:

She shared it from The Sacred Feminine for Life Blog