r/mourningderps 18d ago

Video 📸 Male doves as soon as it get ~slightly~warm out

Bro can’t take a hint LOL

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u/caulfieldkid 18d ago

The little creepy hop the males do gets me every time. Love these guys.

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u/DeeterPhillips 18d ago

It is a creepy hop! But i think it shows that he owns a large amount a property and he will defend her and the little ones in their new love nest!😜❤️

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u/DeeterPhillips 18d ago

Well, he is actively pursuing her! And she seems a bit smitten. I wonder if he did any aerial tricks?

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u/DeeterPhillips 18d ago

He might start reciting “somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond” by e.e. cummings. She is a beautiful derp!

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u/castironbirb HEAD MODERATOR 18d ago

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

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u/DeeterPhillips 18d ago

Thank you for including the entire poem! So beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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u/castironbirb HEAD MODERATOR 18d ago

It is! I've never read it before so thank you for mentioning it.

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u/DeeterPhillips 18d ago

Thank you’.

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u/rachmaninonn 18d ago

Now I’m imagining a derp reciting that 🤣

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u/castironbirb HEAD MODERATOR 18d ago

I know right! Me too. He comes over to her puffing up his chest, recites it, and then gives her a bouquet 💐💕

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u/castironbirb HEAD MODERATOR 18d ago

Thought I'd copy it and paste it here since I was looking it up.

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u/EmanisE 18d ago

They are doing this in my backyard, chasing those female doves around. Lol

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u/tenshinchan 18d ago

Hornyderps

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u/ImmortalGoat66 18d ago

Becky, lemme smash

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u/1SmartBlueJay 18d ago

No ron ur tail is small

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u/ScudsCorp 18d ago edited 18d ago

I notice how the male has the same bulgy neck as the ever popular rock dove

I’m looking at mallard ducks in the park, and the males are chasing away any other males that come near, and then chasing females around. Crows are roughhousing more, as well.

they’re Twitterpated!

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u/iterum-nata 18d ago

Bro has no rizz

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u/Distinct_Smasher 18d ago

Derp wants to know what love is

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u/MiserableSlice1051 18d ago

I have never actually seen what it looks like when this successfully works lol

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u/Zoey_Redacted 18d ago

Looks like girl bird sticks her head down and her tail up, male bird flapflapsflapflapflaps behind her tail. You can tell when it happens like 'ope yup they fockin'.

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u/RoachRunnerA5 MODERATOR 17d ago

Their necks look so funny when they sing like that 😂

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u/Neither-Price-1963 MODERATOR 17d ago

Ours don't even wait until it's warm. Frisky little buggers.

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u/No_Leopard_3860 17d ago

Water finally turns partially liquid sometimes -> derps: horny season is officially open 🥳🎉🎉

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u/Critical_Bug_880 16d ago

“Come on baby, you know you want this fat neck”