Anybody know what kind of birds these are?

[FunkyMonkee]

[sage2021]

I had one wask on the guardrail of the patio two days ago. My friend said it was a dove 🤷🏼‍♀️

What the difference between a doveand a mourning dove?

Morning as in morning the death of someone?

[FunkyMonkee]

Yes, mourning, because it makes a mournful sound when it coos.
The differences I know of are that a dive is white but mourning doves are light brown. And doves just go cooo, cooo when they coo but, mourning doves go, B-r-r-r-r-OOO-OOO-OOO-OOO-OOOOOO. They also make a lot of whistling sounds when they take off. I don't think doves do.

[Caroline91]

One is bigger than the other and they have different shape tails.

[FunkyMonkee]

@Caroline91 I'm pretty sure there's 3 of them there. I have pictures of them as eggs, as chicks and this one is them as young adults just getting ready to fly off.

[Caroline91]

They look like doves. Do you know what they sound like? Doves do a kind of coooo-coo sound.

[FunkyMonkee]

As I said above, these go, B-r-r-r-r-OOO-OOO-OOO-OOO-OOOOOO.

[Caroline91]

I missed where you gave the sound they make. Yes, a dove can sound like that and they are a decent size, nondescript looking bird like that picture.

[FunkyMonkee]

It was above on Sage's comment.

[NathanDavis]

don't know... but I am sure they taste like chicken anyway

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm sure I wouldn't know.

[electromagnetic]

I wanna say pigeon but that’ll be too obvious.

[exitseven]

mourning doves.

[FunkyMonkee]

That's what I say! But, someone on another site says they lay white eggs but, these birds lay light blue eggs.

[Caroline91]

I officially give up bc they look like doves, sound like doves but nowhere can I find anything about doves laying anything but white eggs. The mystery is just too much for me!

[exitseven]

It depends on what you feed them.

[Caroline91]

Are you serious? What about wild doves?

[RavVid]

I think a speckled dove. They are dumb.

[Wise4myage]

I believe they are Doves.

[FunkyMonkee]

Doves are white.

[Wise4myage]

Not here in the States. They are a light tan color.

[LazerBean]

Looks like dove

[FunkyMonkee]

Any doves I've seen are white.

[dustybiker2]

Mourning Dove

[dustybiker2]

Opp. Always happens when you don't check replies.

[FunkyMonkee]

What happens?

[dustybiker2]

I didn't check. People already gave the answer

[FunkyMonkee]

I see! Well, that's okay, I hardly ever check, either unless I'm planning to write something a bit long then, if someone's already said it, no point in my saying anything except, "I agree!".

[Anonymous]

Doves or pigeons.

[FunkyMonkee]

Around here, pigeons are white and grey. We used to get `em but dad scared them all away back in the `70's with his BB gun.

[Opinion Owner]

Mike Tyson likes pigeons

[FunkyMonkee]

::tugs at ear:: You know what this is?
Tyson Foods.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes, Tyson likes to eat ears watch the Jake Paul fight versus Mike Tyson July 20 on Netflix. It’s an exhibition fight, but Tyson is trying to knock him out. When are you going to get a haircut? I was just wondering.

[Opinion Owner]

Don’t take it the wrong way, but I saw your comments on your hair

[FunkyMonkee]

I cut one 3 days ago!
I cut a really loud one this afternoon!

[Opinion Owner]

Congratulations you got a haircut good

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, it had a split end so, I cut that bit off.

[Opinion Owner]

Cool, good job

[FunkyMonkee]

The rest of it's still down to my waist.

[Opinion Owner]

Wow Way too long how can you ride a horse like that?

[FunkyMonkee]

Last time I rode a horse, I was about 8 years old and was forced to get buzz cuts.

[Opinion Owner]

You have pretty long hair for sure? I hope you like it.

[Opinion Owner]

Is it in a ponytail?

[FunkyMonkee]

I love it! Especially if I'm not wearing a shirt and it moves across my back!
Yes, it's usually in a pony tail. I don't understand how others with long hair keep it out of their face with it being in a pony tail. Especially wild drummers! I tend to sit perfectly still at the drum and it still gets all over my face unless I tie it up! Then you have people like this and it's always out of their face!!
www.youtube.com/watch

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, that hair gets all over the face

[FunkyMonkee]

AND my back!! When I'm sweating, it's impossible to get it off my face while I'm playing! So, I keep it in a double ponytail on stage.

[Opinion Owner]

Good

[FunkyMonkee]

About half way in, you can get a glimpse of what it looked like tied up twice. It's still on my back a few inches.
https://youtu.be/dKDHep7tuSs?si=1uT5I_zhpd8FAnTa

[FunkyMonkee]

That was 49 weeks before I shaved it all off.

[Opinion Owner]

How old is this video? Cool video your hair is not that long. You look really lean are you still still that lean?

[FunkyMonkee]

Shot two days before my b-day in `88.
Thanks!
It LOOKS like it's not that long because I have it folded twice. add about 4" to what you see there and it's about down to my waist.
I was always like a stick until about 20 years ago when I lost my best friend. I got VERY sad and depressed for a LONG time and started gaining weight! I'm still relatively skinny but my belly is kinda big, now. I'm about 79% heavier, now. At that point, I was 185, I'm now about 330 and TRYING to lose it!!.

[Opinion Owner]

Good luck on the weight loss, my friend you can do it

[FunkyMonkee]

I sure hope so! But, I can't do it just sitting here all bloody day!! Between the shitty weather and the incredibly awful bus service here, I'm not able to get out ANYWHERE!! I don't have anyplace here to set up my drums or I'd bring those up and have a bash just about every day!!

[Opinion Owner]

Can’t you just walk outside of your house and go for walks?

[FunkyMonkee]

Not in shitty weather and, even if I do, I'm on top of a hill, now so, there's only about half a mile that isn't part of a steep hill.

[Opinion Owner]

What about buying a bicycle in doors or treadmill?

[FunkyMonkee]

I've got a bike. The first time I rode it, the front tire blew and I put a hole in the new tube trying to get it back into the rim. If I had the room for an indoor bike or treadmill, the drums would be in that spot.

[Opinion Owner]

You can’t walk down the hill to go for a walk what about driving out somewhere and going for a walk?

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't have a license. There's only one bus here and it's ALWAYS at least 50:00 late and I still have to go down that really steep hill to get to it. When I was at MY house, nearly everything was flat and I walked everywhere! Even though I had THREE buses that ran constantly!! The mall was a mile & a half from the house and I'd walk up there several times a week, When I was in the band, I'd walk home from Bob's house after busting ass at a gig! At least an 8 mile walk! One night I had come here to tell my aunt that my ex-sisters shut off my phone!! It's a 4 mile walk. I'm not afraid of walking, I just don't wanna have to hump this fucking big christian mountain every time I go somewhere. It's bad enough when I HAVE to!
If the weather's nice and I'm not in the middle of other things, I DO go out for about a mile long walk up here on the mostly flat section. It'd help if I didn't have all this excess weight to lug around. Then, I wouldn't mind the hills so much.

[Opinion Owner]

I don’t understand why you’re having so many problems and you were so skinny. It must be extremely difficult to weigh 330 pounds. How do you get to work? How do you feed yourself and pay your electricity water bills property taxes if if you don’t exercise, that’s the last line of defense to protect yourself. Bad things can happen. diabetes, worse than that, I just got out of the hospital with a blood clot

[FunkyMonkee]

I actually made it all the way up to 365! That was hard, walking!
It also didn't help that I lost everything else at the same time period. The band broke up, my dad, grandmother, aunt, uncle, guitarist, singer, ex-guitarist and my dog died, my brother fucked up my bike and then it just vanished, we had to fill in the pool, I lost my girlfriend and I was out of work for a couple years. And, it didn't help that my brother was arrested and jailed for several years and then became an asshole again shortly after getting out and then killed himself a couple years later! All this shit happened within about an 8 to 10 year period! Shortly after all this, mom had a stroke! So, basically, except for a few high points, my life has been getting progressively worse from about 1994 onwards.
While I was at the print shop, I rode at least 2 buses to work. When they moved too far away for me to be able to get there, they shipped my work to my house and I'd work in the garage. When that dried up,. I went to another print shop 6 blocks from my house. I walked there every day. When that dried up 16 months later, I found a job cleaning and pricing records at a used book store but, for some reason, he only kept me on for 5 Sundays. After that, I lived on what I'd saved up for the next 3 or 4 years. Then mom died and left me about $2000. My ex-sisters stole the other $37,000. When mom's money ran out, I was forced to live on what loose change I could find at the drive-thru windows at the mall every night. Then I got a job doing voice acting in a couple of short movies. That got me $650.00. Then, I got a job at the Red Cross through the AARP. I was there for at least 18 months when I HAD to quit because I was trying to pack everything to go because my ex-sisters were having me kicked out of my own house, which mom had just Willed me when she died a week after my b-day! (3 weeks after my cousin died). I came up here to live with my aunt whose hubby died the previous summer.

[FunkyMonkee]

My aunt HAD $11,000,000 but she pissed it all away on scammers!! 3 weeks before she died, she mortgaged THIS house to give MORE money to the scammer and now, I'm stuck having to pay it off, IF I can win it from my cousins who claim it belongs to them!!

[Opinion Owner]

I’m very sorry to hear all of this, but you have to get out and try to exercise for your own health and try to exercise the demons because I know you’re going through a lot but you have to try to clear the mind and try to stay positive and focus on a bright future if you can if not, the health problems are gonna strike hard and it’s gonna get worse and worse

[FunkyMonkee]

I know but, EVERY TIME I WANT to go out for a walk, it's either freezing, snowing or pissing rain!! Quite often, I feel like Truman! Every time I wanna get something done, SOMETHING that I need to do it breaks down on me or something keeps me from being able to do it or, like, if I go to the store to get root beer, the day it goes on sale, when I get to the store there's NOTHING on the shelves!! HOW can you have a sale with no stock to back it up or a whole bunch of it in the warehouse in case you DO run out on the shelves? It's like someone's watching me and is trying to keep me from completing my goals!! Just like in The Truman Show!! There were 3 or 4 instances with the band where, it looked like we were just about to hit it big when something got in the way to kill it and we had to start from scratch all over again!! SOME of this, I blame on Bob because, apparently, he had a kind of fear of success. Playing locally for small crowds was great but, as soon as someone said they were gonna sign us, or we were gonna get some huge show, SOMETHING fucked it up!! A friend of ours knew someone at Sony (Columbia Records) who said they'd sign us as long as Tim was still in the band. Well, next thing I know, Bob's having a fist fight with Tim and then Tim quits!!
Amazingly, I usually DO have a pretty cheery outlook but, so often, no sooner do I start growing trees when someone or someTHING else cuts them down!!

[Opinion Owner]

You have to force yourself to do something staying inside all day. It’s not gonna help your health.

[FunkyMonkee]

It has nothing to do with forcing, it's to do with the weather and my ease of access to the rest of the world.

[Opinion Owner]

Are you gonna tell me it rains every single day where you’re living at? I don’t even know where you live. If it’s too hot why don’t you walk early in the morning or at night time it seems to me you have an excuse for everything in the book and it only takes 30 minutes to walk every day if not, you’re gonna end up getting diabetes and worse and worse.

[Opinion Owner]

You can’t keep keep that weight at 330 pounds for the rest of your life. It will catch up to you

[Opinion Owner]

How much food are you eating every day?

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, I know! That's why I want my damned drums up here!! Not only that, I could start working on my second solo album!! Had ALL THIS FUCKING INSANITY I've been dealing with the past 15 or 20 years not been holding me back, I could've probably started working on my 3rd or 4th album, by now! But, there's roadblock after roadblock after roadblock!!

[FunkyMonkee]

breakfast: a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea.
Dinner, a couple sandwiches; pulled pork, spaghetti, pizza, ramen noodles, hamburgers, Treet & hashed browns, chicken & rice, meatloaf, pizza burgers, roasted chicken, hot buttered noodles, beef Stroganoff, pancakes, French toast, almost whatever I feel like making. The kitchen stove died 4 years ago Thanksgiiving day and the oven in the basement stove doesn't work so, I'm slightly limited.
If I get hungry between meals and I'm in the middle of working on something, here, I'll have maybe half a can of Pringles and a mouthful or two of root beer.
There's a lot more I COULD make if I had a working stove oo the first floor!

[Opinion Owner]

That’s way too much food, man are you sure you’re not playing psychological head games with me?

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't eat ALL of that at the same time! I meant that, one night I'll have two sandwiches, the next, ramen noodle, the next, chicken & rice. One meal.
I USED to eat a lot more than I do, now.

[Opinion Owner]

I also eat two sandwiches every night pretty much and I’m gonna do the same thing tonight. Plus I have a Marie calendars, lasagna or spaghetti meatballs, and I live by myself and I’m devastated.

[Opinion Owner]

I haven’t worked in 18 months and I’m about to lose my house. Due to property tax problems i’ll have to move into a motel, which is extremely dangerous and he never know what kind of characters you’re gonna get around you Plus, I have health problems now

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't eat sandwiches every night, maybe twice a week if that. One night, I'll have turkey (last night) in a few nights, I'll have either Swiss or Steak-Ums. I was kinda hoping to have roasted chicken, tonight but, I suddenly started wheezing a lot a couple hours ago so, I'm probably gonna have Ramen noodles, instead.
I just made my own spaghetti last night. I don't use sauce. Just plain spaghetti with grated Parmesan cheese and a little salt. And a cup of tea. I WAS gonna have some "Italian" bread with it, too but, OF COURSE, it went moldy on me before I could use it!! EVERY TIME I get some from the food bank! I get it Wed. and by Sat., it's going moldy! Well, more bunny food!!
Devastated by what?
I haven't worked since late `19 and there's a chance I'm gonna lose THIS house, too!! My aunt left it to me but I can't find a Will anywhere saying so!! So, now, my cousins (who each have their own houses) wanna take it off me!! And, when we get that shit sorted out, the bank my stupid aunt mortgaged the house to wants ME to pay back HER debt or, THEY'LL take the house away from me!! That's the biggest reason I've avoided bringing the drums up here, even if I HAD the room!! There's a chance they may just lock the doors on me and not let me get any of my stuff out!! It was already being posted for sheriff's sale 6 months ago!!
The one cousin claims he's worth a few million dollars! Well, if that's so, why has he NEVER paid my aunt for the house he's in, now? She sold it to him when she moved in here in 2000 and, so far, has only given her maybe two payments of about $300!! So, basically, he stole THAT house from her!!
What kind of health problem?

[Opinion Owner]

Blood clot

[FunkyMonkee]

Seems to me there's ways to dissolve that. A few years ago, I could've told you but, all this trauma I've been under has made me a tiny bit forgetful. I think, apple cider vinegar?

[Opinion Owner]

How do you get rid of the blood clot I got it March 16 I spent three days in the hospital and I’m now taking Eliquis blood thinners I got screwed over from my insurance plan. They didn’t cover me so I’m stuck with a huge hospital bill now. What do I do? Ask for a forgiveness Letter asking to see if they’ll waive my debt Because it’s not my fault that their companies screwed me over on the insurance

[FunkyMonkee]

Call up uncle Joey! He'll pay your bills for you! If he doesn't, pretend to be from S. America and tell him you just crossed the border yesterday. He'll have your bill paid before you can say, "Want an ice cream cone"?
I already had Medicare and Medicaid but, there was still a lot of stuff they wouldn't deal with so, I got United back in Dec. and they take care of pretty much everything.
Apparently, I had a clot in me left leg so, they started giving me Xarelto.
As I said, I think apple cider vinegar will dissolve it but, you''d have to look it up to know for sure.

[Opinion Owner]

Have you ever heard of Eliquis its a blood thinner it’s very expensive like $920 but I got it through a specialty program so it’s only 10 bucks. I got lucky and the first one was free.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, I don't think so. I thought it might've had something to do with horses.
That's insane! I'll bet they can make an entire bottle of them for 50c!! I've heard that, drugs we get here for insane amounts can easily be had in Canada or Cuba for like 25c!! This is why doctors are so bloody rich!! Used to be, a Dr. was only interested in helping people that needed it, damn the amount of pay they'd get!! These days, the Hypocritic oath includes, I promise to suck dry the bank accounts of anyone that comes to see me." MAKING money is fine! No problem with that, at all but, STEALING money, ESPECIALLY from those that don't have it, is cruel and viscous!!
In the meantime, I'm willing to bet there's some natural stuff you can get for pennies that does the same thing and probably better and with no side effects!!
I'd like to find some MMS!! I've heard from hundreds of people saying it cures pretty much anything that ails them and it'll even re-grow missing teeth!! What I DON'T understand is how ALL THOSE people can easily get it, but I can't? "it's REAL easy to find! everybody sells it! You can find it online!" Really? WHERE? I'VE been looking for it for 20-some years and can't find it ANYWHERE!!

[Opinion Owner]

The reason I got a blood clot I believe because I was throwing up for days around March 14 j and I was really dehydrated. I wasn’t drinking much water and then it just came out of nowhere at midnight on March 16. The pain in my leg I ignored it, but it started swelling up a day later

[Opinion Owner]

The neighbor insisted that I go to the hospital she put the scare the fear into me

[Grond21]

Mourning doves

[FunkyMonkee]

That's what I thought!!

[Grond21]

You knew it!

[FunkyMonkee]

It's just that, they lay blue eggs and this girl I was talking to on another site says they only make white eggs.

[Grond21]

Are you sure they are blue?

[FunkyMonkee]

I've got pictures.

[Grond21]

The Common Ground dove and the Eurasian Collared dove kinda look like that. But those are the only other possibilities in North America I found, and both alsovhave white eggs.

[FunkyMonkee]

If I could post the pictures, I would.

[Dongie]

Quail?

[FunkyMonkee]

No, quail are bigger and have that goofy black thing hanging over their face.

[Dongie]

so they're not dove or pigeon so humph.

[FunkyMonkee]

As far as I know, they're mourning doves. Some goofy chick was arguing with me saying they lay white eggs but, I've hosted several sets of them in my bedroom window (as seen in the pic) and they ALL laid blue eggs!!

[Dongie]

Ha, I said to meself Dove but said nah. Oh well.

[OtterMan68]

morning doves

[FunkyMonkee]

I agree.