Hey all...
I've been hitting the fields at Kokosing State Park in Knox county and have not seen too many doves so far. Any doves that I have seen are likely resident birds, and even those are far and few between. Has anyone else had these results? I've seen a few and taken a few shots that I probably shouldn't have even took, and come up dry, and I've heard other shots from other areas, but not much, and that might've been for squirrel anyways. The weather and climate this year is obviously throwing off the migration schedule a bit, so they may have either come and gone already, before the season even started, or have yet to show up. Kokosing has two large plots of sunflower plantings, one at the intersection of Blair & Waterford, and one off of Yankee St., accessed by the third entrance on the right from Waterford Rd. and back next to the high-voltage power lines. I've spent most of my time at the Yankee St. spot since I have seen more there hanging out on the high wire. Half of the sunflowers they planted were mowed down on August 20th...and I don't see any seed left from that mow-down. I talked to a gal at the DNR and she told me they were planning on mowing the rest down by the end of this week hopefully, to get ready to plant their winter wheat. I am hoping that after they mow the remaining sunflowers down, there will be some more incentive for resident doves to drop in, as well as hoping that the migrating ones drop by too. I plan on checking tomorrow or Saturday to see if they mowed...I will let you all know what I see. I am hoping that by posting this we can get some more hunters out there because more hunters in a dove field (not too many though) is always a good thing to keep the birds moving around. I would be down for coordinating a group to head out there after they mow...so let me know if you're interested in meeting up.
Cheers...
I've been hitting the fields at Kokosing State Park in Knox county and have not seen too many doves so far. Any doves that I have seen are likely resident birds, and even those are far and few between. Has anyone else had these results? I've seen a few and taken a few shots that I probably shouldn't have even took, and come up dry, and I've heard other shots from other areas, but not much, and that might've been for squirrel anyways. The weather and climate this year is obviously throwing off the migration schedule a bit, so they may have either come and gone already, before the season even started, or have yet to show up. Kokosing has two large plots of sunflower plantings, one at the intersection of Blair & Waterford, and one off of Yankee St., accessed by the third entrance on the right from Waterford Rd. and back next to the high-voltage power lines. I've spent most of my time at the Yankee St. spot since I have seen more there hanging out on the high wire. Half of the sunflowers they planted were mowed down on August 20th...and I don't see any seed left from that mow-down. I talked to a gal at the DNR and she told me they were planning on mowing the rest down by the end of this week hopefully, to get ready to plant their winter wheat. I am hoping that after they mow the remaining sunflowers down, there will be some more incentive for resident doves to drop in, as well as hoping that the migrating ones drop by too. I plan on checking tomorrow or Saturday to see if they mowed...I will let you all know what I see. I am hoping that by posting this we can get some more hunters out there because more hunters in a dove field (not too many though) is always a good thing to keep the birds moving around. I would be down for coordinating a group to head out there after they mow...so let me know if you're interested in meeting up.
Cheers...