Look what I caught today - a Diamond Dove!
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:00 pm
This one came down to eat this morning with our regular bunch of garden doves/finches. It took a few hours of cat and mouse but luckily it seems to be an extremely tame bird, as I could happily get within 3 feet of it before it flew off because of the net. It was more of me waiting for it to come out of a tree each time...(otherwise my cats would have caught it
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It doesn't look to be in too bad a condition besides very exhausted and it's tail has taken a bit of a beating. I have it alone in a small cage with a heat lamp and some vitamins in the water. Besides having two really good eating sessions, I haven't seen it do anything but rest. It seems incredibly tame. I was busy putting on the heat lamp switch inside the cage when it decided to come down to eat. Landed on my hand, poped over to the food bowl and tucked in to eat. To me this sounds hand tamed. Am I correct?
I'm going to see if I can find out who lost a bird in my area. Otherwise I think it will make a lovely dove companion for Pebbles, my young Peruvian, in my little aviary. Because it's a very pretty cinnamon dove
![Image](http://imageshack.us/a/img715/4517/dove1.jpg)
![Image](http://imageshack.us/a/img23/3113/dove2c.jpg)
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
It doesn't look to be in too bad a condition besides very exhausted and it's tail has taken a bit of a beating. I have it alone in a small cage with a heat lamp and some vitamins in the water. Besides having two really good eating sessions, I haven't seen it do anything but rest. It seems incredibly tame. I was busy putting on the heat lamp switch inside the cage when it decided to come down to eat. Landed on my hand, poped over to the food bowl and tucked in to eat. To me this sounds hand tamed. Am I correct?
I'm going to see if I can find out who lost a bird in my area. Otherwise I think it will make a lovely dove companion for Pebbles, my young Peruvian, in my little aviary. Because it's a very pretty cinnamon dove
![Big Grin :D](./images/smilies/4.gif)
![Image](http://imageshack.us/a/img715/4517/dove1.jpg)
![Image](http://imageshack.us/a/img23/3113/dove2c.jpg)