I recall that- giving the DNR the right to decide whether or not the doves that are raised here in MI, and possibly fly South- to a legal State for a dove season in the Fall- is wasting a resource-also hurts the economy, as the sales of shotgun ammo and reloading supplies rises in the States that have legal seasons on doves.
We have doves in our backyard year around it seems, although this just past February was mild and snow-free for 2017, very unusual. I just assumed that the doves migrated South during MI Winters, as do the ducks and geese- perhaps that is not always the case.
But the dove has given me the chance to make a "play on words with my two oldest grandchildren-- when the see the mourning doves on the roof or in tree branches in the afternoon, they will ask me if they are now "afternoon doves, Grandpa?"- Mourning-morning, sounds the same to their youthful ears- but Jordan (who will receive the 20 Sterly in 2 years) once also asked our waitress at Applebee's-- "Where do you keep the apples and the bees here?"" Gotta love messin' with those young minds.RWTF
