# We're having a baby! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-a-baby/583160 "2011-05-25T14:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-a-baby/583160/1 "2011-05-25T14:51:16Z")
Ok, technically, the mourning doves that built a nest outside my bedroom window are having a baby… A few weeks ago, I started hearing a different call in the morning cacophony outside the bedroom windows. Didn’t think a lot of it until last week, when I spotted the beginnings of a nest in the top of our pergola, which is directly under my bedroom window. Last Friday, I saw one of the pair in the nest, later that day, I spotted the egg. Everything I’ve read says there are usually two, we only have the one. My two male cats sit in that window constantly and have become captivated. Yesterday, I found some sound files of the mourning dove calls and when I played them, one of the cats came running from the living room, ran to the window in the family room UNDER the nest and started looking up. Pretty cool. [Pictures](https://picasaweb.google.com/lrm229/MourningDoves?authkey=Gv1sRgCOeYisWgw8uTDg&feat=directlink) I’ll update when needed. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-a-baby/583160/2 "2011-05-25T15:39:32Z")
Fun! A medical office we used to go to frequently had a pigeon nest on the windowsill - he’d had the window open one day, and lifted the screen for whatever reason; when he closed the window he left the screen up… and a pigeon found that just enough space for a nest. When we were there, we could watch the birdlings develop. Mama pigeon did NOT like us touching the window - she responded with a sharp RAP on the glass to tell us to keep away. BTW - I can’t be the only one who thought “may with a cat” + “we’re having a baby” and went EWWWW ;).