One of the things that made us sad about leaving our Whidbey Island home is that we knew we would miss all our springtime tropical birds. We have discovered that we have a whole new world of birds here in our desert home. We see and hear new breeds of birds everywhere we go: on our walks around the ponds and paths in Leisure World, in the ravines and bushes on our desert camping and hiking trips, and just sitting on our front and rear patios. This is a new world filled with birds just waiting for us to identify and enjoy them.
A few days ago the eggs hatched in the bird nest in our lemon tree, and we have two new babies birds! I quickly took a few pictures of the babies while their mother or father anxiously watched from our rooftop.
Both the mom and dad Dove take turns sitting on the eggs, warming their newborn babies, and feed the babies together until their babies can care of themselves. We love these nurturing Doves.
These beautiful Doves surround our home and “coo” all day long, making music and delighting us. Every time we sit on our back patio and talk with Kathy and Bill on the phone, they comment on all the beautiful bird noises they can hear in our yard.
We have not only a lemon tree ”very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,” but we also have two orange trees that bear copious amounts of delicious oranges. We started eating our oranges at the start of the new year, one or two every day, as they slowly ripened. Almost five months later, on the day our baby birds were born, we ate our very last orange. I just happened to glance out our kitchen window and spied this on our orange tree.
New baby oranges! The circle of life.
Here is another bit of evidence that spring is really here. I found our very first double yolks this year when I made Dan’s breakfast....and not one double yolk, but two!
Spring is beautiful, but it is getting a little warm, even for we new Arizonians!
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