{"id":429,"date":"2009-05-16T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-05-16T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:54:33","slug":"living-in-the-gutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/living-in-the-gutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Gutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discovered recently that we have a tenant staying in our garage.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, it&#8217;s not technically <em>in<\/em> the garage, but in the rain gutter on the outside of the garage.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, a mourning dove has built her nest there, in the end opposite the downspout.\u00c2\u00a0 From the driveway, you can just make out the head and tail:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_430\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-430\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-430\" title=\"dovenest2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest2.jpg\" alt=\"Dove\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dove<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A better view can be had from an upstairs window:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_431\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-431\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-431\" title=\"dovenest1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest1.jpg\" alt=\"Dove in nest\" width=\"466\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest1.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dovenest1-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dove in nest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been spreading birdseed on the driveway and lawn for her and her mate (according to an expert, doves prefer to collect seed off the ground), and we wait for a glimpse of eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently the eggs should be apparent when they are present, as doves aren&#8217;t very competent at nest building, and so the eggs will often stick out from under the mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discovered recently that we have a tenant staying in our garage.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, it&#8217;s not technically in the garage, but in the rain gutter on the outside of the garage.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, a mourning dove has built her nest there, in the end opposite the downspout.\u00c2\u00a0 From the driveway, you can just make out the head &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/living-in-the-gutter\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}