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Originally Posted by Daniel G Rainey
Years ago We had a pasture full of goat weed and I would keep an eye on it and when the doves really go to using it.I would put my shotgun in the truck and after checking my steers would have myself a little dove shoot. Great fun and doves do love goat weed.
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Dan, It must be nice to have your own private dove field, even if you do have to share it with the livestock. We have begun a prairie restoration project in the 5 acre field next to us. To begin the project we sprayed herbicide to kill all of the fescue. The seed bank was rich with seed that must have been lying dormant for many years and we had lots of volunteer forbs and grasses that first Fall. The dove loved it! The following year when our prairie planting started to take hold, we did not have nearly the dove, but the deer have come to the field in large numbers. You would think we had planted deer candy. Just wondering what this coming year will bring as we see more native plants mature. It's an island of natives in a sea of fescue pastures, but I keep hoping that a pair of Bobs will take up residence.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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