If Daisy is broody, then Carrie is the layer. I would separate them. That way you will know all eggs are being incubated properly and she won't push out hatching eggs and take the new fresh -but unvaiable eggs. Most likely if she pushes one out you can candle it and tell if it is viable and if so just put it back, sometimes they just don't realize they have pushed some out from the bunch. But sometimes they may know something we don't--that the egg is bad and she doesn't want it to ruin her nest.

What great pictures! Even caught her expression! As for the lawnmower, I think the noise scares her bad enough that she "freezes", but when you walk up, she flies to lead you away from the nest. I have a pair of doves in my yard, too. Have never found a nest, but love their cooing. (My mom used to think it was owls!) If they are on the ground and I'm walking around outside, sometimes they will "freeze" to hopefully blend in with their surroundings. Most of the time they stick out like a sore thumb - like when I was a kid and thought if I shut my eyes I was invisible! They are great little garden companions. Thanks for the photos! Carolyn

It's so nice to see a bird's nest in your yard. How much more if it's a dove bird. I'm so excited everytime there's a bird building a nest in my yard. My bird visitors are usually the Mallee Ringneck. There's alot of them around my place and I'm so happy to have them. Do you know how many eggs are there in the nest already?

Finally saw our first waxwings this week in our blueberries. To me, the arrival of waxwings in southern Il seems strange. I associate the waxwing as a northern bird. However, they don't arrive here till mid June and stay sometimes two or three months before disappearing. Most birds migrate through here much earlier and stay a month at the most. We also are enjoying our towhee every single day as he visits the ground surrounding our feeders. I only see one though. We are fortunate to have loads of cardinals; and, yesterday, he spent a good half hour chasing one particular female around. I think the poor lovelorn thing must be getting desperate. Finally, our summer tanagers are back, and I have been blessed with some real close encounters with them. They like to hang out at our red raspberries and blackberries and have a very unique vocalization.