We have had a excellent year weather wise but I fear our hatch will be lower than expected. It seems many of the Dove we sent south for the winter never returned. Would you know anything about that issue?
I wish I could say "guilty as charged", but our past season was one of the poorest I recall, for numbers taken. Ducks, too. All the sunflower fields around here look great and are on time. They are matured, with very little green still showing. Doves have taken to them in earnest already. Corn harvest has begun, which pulls some of the birds from sunflowers, but not that many. As much as doves love sunflower for feed, we were told by a game biologist once that when it turns seriously cold doves can't get enough energy out of sunflower alone to survive. That's when they really turn to the harvested peanut fields.
23 days and a wake-up ........
SRH
