This isn’t the best picture, I’m aware. However, I never knew how difficult it was to capture a picture of a bird. I stalked this bird for at least a few minutes before I was able to get an angle where it was even in the frame. I followed its coos to the Bur Oak in the following post. When I was younger, I always thought the coos of morning doves came from owls. Morning doves are everywhere. There are many back where I live in Maryland outside Washington, D.C. as well. I liked these birds until I started driving, and they left their presence all over my car. However, despite the havoc they wreck, I think there is something elegant and beautiful about morning doves. I associate them with the smell of early morning, slight humidity, walking through morning dew, and the peace that comes in with the start of a new day that hasn’t really begun yet.
iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5434001