Crested Pigeon (5/17)

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

Ocyphaps lophotes  

This nest was in a shrub in my front yard. The first we knew of it was when both eggs fell to the ground one night during a gale.

A few days later we noticed that the pigeon was again sitting on the nest on two new eggs and did so for two weeks but the eggs apparently did not develop and eventually the nest and eggs were abandoned.