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 Welcome to the Bird Page of the Ornate Bird Garden. I live in the American southwestern high desert. The most common bird I see in the backyard is the mourning dove. They are everywhere, hooting and flapping and generally acting silly. They seem to hatch babies all through the year! I have seen “micro-doves” with juvenile plumage as late as November.
I also have a lot of sparrows and red finches. Robins, of course. A few gold finches that are so tiny they look like hummingbirds. Then I have a businesslike flock of pigeons that checks in with me daily as it makes its rounds through the bird feeders of the neighborhood. I occasionally see more exotic birds: a flicker (big gorgeous bird), a pair of ladder-back woodpeckers (very cute), scrub jays, and once a small falcon eating a pigeon in my ash tree!
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