DEAR JOAN: A pair of cooing mourning doves are building their nest on our patio table. I love all our birds and am torn between cleaning it up and waiting for nature’s show. There is a big problem ...

“I had a mourning dove nesting in a pine tree in my backyard on April 1,” writes a Salisbury woman. “A few days later I noticed that the dove was gone and nothing was in the nest. What could have ...

One of the three pairs of mourning doves visiting my feeders have begun putting finishing touches on a clumsy nest in the fork of a rhododendron only a couple feet off the front steps. Last year the ...

DEAR JOAN: Your May 29 column about mourning doves has prompted me to share our own story about a mourning dove and her fruitless efforts to build a nest on our back patio. My husband had built a ...