09-07-2006, 12:15 AM
[cool][#0000ff]When we lived in Arizona, we lived in an area of Mesa where there were community lakes. There was a large group of those ring necked doves living in the neighborhood and they flocked into our backyard because we had a big bird-feeding operation going. There were even a couple of the white doves that came in with them. Evidently someone had been raising them and a few had escaped. That's how they have spread across the whole country. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once they got used to you they were really friendly. They would land on our hands and eat those little black sunflower seeds right out of our hands. They would also land on our heads and shoulders. Once when I was trying to restring some TV cable, they came in and landed on me, the ladder and the hanging cable, playing like it was a swing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We really enjoyed those little rascals and still miss them a lot. BUT...the hunter in me often wondered how they would be if I invited a few of them inside for dinner. As an old Idaho farm boy I don't have any foolish notions about sparing "family pets" if they eat good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once they got used to you they were really friendly. They would land on our hands and eat those little black sunflower seeds right out of our hands. They would also land on our heads and shoulders. Once when I was trying to restring some TV cable, they came in and landed on me, the ladder and the hanging cable, playing like it was a swing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We really enjoyed those little rascals and still miss them a lot. BUT...the hunter in me often wondered how they would be if I invited a few of them inside for dinner. As an old Idaho farm boy I don't have any foolish notions about sparing "family pets" if they eat good.[/#0000ff]
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