09-02-2003, 04:14 PM
[cool]You guys must have been throwing some lead at the doves over the weekend. I have a lot of doves showing up in my backyard down here with Jazz stickers on their traveling bags. My 85 year old mother scatters wild bird seed a couple of times a day and the doves flock in. There are three species here...mourning doves, Inca doves (small ones) and the big whitewings.
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As soon as she walks away from dumping the seed there are a couple of hundred doves at some times.
The answer is NO, she does not allow hunting in our backyard. And, NO, she does not hire out as a dove guide. You wouldn't want her retrieving your birds anyway. With those dentures, she just does not have a soft enough mouth for doves. Chews them up a bit.
Sadly, shortly after I took those pics from my second floor balcony, my mom took a bad spill in the gravel and we have restricted her to staying out of the backyard now.
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As soon as she walks away from dumping the seed there are a couple of hundred doves at some times.
The answer is NO, she does not allow hunting in our backyard. And, NO, she does not hire out as a dove guide. You wouldn't want her retrieving your birds anyway. With those dentures, she just does not have a soft enough mouth for doves. Chews them up a bit.
Sadly, shortly after I took those pics from my second floor balcony, my mom took a bad spill in the gravel and we have restricted her to staying out of the backyard now.
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