Another drama in the garden

We have some mourning doves that make their nests in the garden but they are terrible at making them. They always choose the leaves of the self pruning palm trees and they have fallen a couple of times. The first time we didn't put the nest back on a tree, we just put it in a bush and the dove didn't come back. The second time I picked the eggs with a spoon and put back the nest in another leaf and the mommy dove came back but we never saw if the baby doves survived or not.

Well, this year they made a nest in the worst place, in the front, where it is very windy and in a lower leaf, almost ready to fall. We have been watching them for days, hoping the nest will stay in its place. The leaf is almost brown so I put some tape to secure it to the trunk and tried to tie the leaf to a trellis so it would not move so much with the wind. It still looked very dangerous for the nest so Don put something under the nest to protect it but the mommy dove was too scared and it was unble to come back to the nest so I took it off. It was supposed to rain a lot and it was very windy so I had to make a decision yesterday. I decided to move the nest to a hanging wire basket and see if the dove would come back to the nest. When I moved it, I saw there were two little birds there!! They don't look at all like a dove, they are so dark. I was able to take a picture. The mommy dove made many attemps to land on the nest any it looked like it was not going to work but after many tries she got it. It rained all night and it has been windy but they look more secure now. We can't wait to see if the babies grow up.

Their new home