Bird Identification: CLOSED: Dove confusion, 1 by rntx22

rntx22 wrote:
I didn't think twice about these photos of what I thought were just mourning doves until I uploaded them. They were taken in August. The one that has me confused is the one on the back of the feeder looking toward the camera. It has a white patch on the shoulder. None of my bird books or pictures of the mourning doves on the web show a white patch like that on a mourning dove. I looked at all the other kinds of doves for my area, but nothing I've seen has a white patch like this. the closest is a white winged dove, which are in my area, but the white lining starts lower on the wing. Any thoughts?