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 ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, we had a mourning dove make a nest in one of our hanging planters. The planter was mostly dead plants and potting soil, but she must have thought it was safe, so she laid two ...

“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 ...

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 ...