WHITE WINGED DOVES

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

All year I feed the white winged doves, twice a day. This winter most migrated south into Mexico. Only had about 20-30 each feeding. Today is the very first day the southern visitors have returned. This afternoon I had hundreds, I'm guessing maybe two hundred birds trying to feed at once. They will hang out in the general area until winter returns. Towards sunset' they fly west a few miles to the Rio Grande to roost for the night. They will return for their 0730 feeding.

 

[mr-mom]

Thanks for posting the pictures. That’s one bird we do not see here in the northland. Replenished the suet feeders yesterday and the chickades, nuthatches and peckerwoods are having a feast.
Dave
SWCA #2778

 

[mr-mom]

This fella just dropped in!
Dave
SWCA #2778

 

[kthom]

We see a few of those white winged doves here in and around Lubbock, as we did when I lived in Lea County, NM. They do like a bait of red milo if you will put it out for them. Trouble is, we are covered up year round with the invasive collared or ring neck doves now. They are larger than either the white wings and mourning doves and they will take over the feeding station. They are about as bad as pigeons, although just a bit smaller. It's always good to see the whitewings!

 

[Watchdog]

Love the photos. Nice to see people who care about the wild things.

 

[Rpg]

We see a few of those white winged doves here in and around Lubbock, as we did when I lived in Lea County, NM. They do like a bait of red milo if you will put it out for them. Trouble is, we are covered up year round with the invasive collared or ring neck doves now. They are larger than either the white wings and mourning doves and they will take over the feeding station. They are about as bad as pigeons, although just a bit smaller. It's always good to see the whitewings!

The invasive collared or Eurasian doves offer good shooting year round since hunting them isn’t restricted. They’re every bit as good in the pan.

 

[Qmark]

I haven't seen any White Wings around the Phoenix area in years. I used to fill my WW bag limit easily. Slob hunters leaving trash, driving over crops and a disrespect for farmers land. The farms surrounding the city no longer grow crops that attract Dove and Dove hunters. Occasionally I see large flocks of Dove flying overhead but far enough away I can't tell if they are White Wings, Morning Dove or a new non native Eurasian species that are migrating west. The Eurasian Dove prefer the city often flocking with Pigeons.

 

[Qmark]

The invasive collared or Eurasian doves offer good shooting year round since hunting them isn’t restricted. They’re every bit as good in the pan.

The only two that made it to my barbecue wrapped in bacon tasted better to me.

 

[Whitwabit]

Have several pairs in my pine trees ..

Love to hear them early in the morning on a warm spring morning ..

 

[JJEH]

Love the photos. Nice to see people who care about the wild things.

Ms. Nicks cared for them too...

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Gawd, she's a goddess on stage....

 

[woodsltc]

Nice to see people who care about the wild things.

I care about them ........ they taste great.

Don

 

[bigwheelzip]

All year I feed the white winged doves, twice a day.

Your a gracious host.

 

[LVSteve]

A symptom of the mild winter here is that I'm overrun with young hummingbirds. I've had a Costa's recently which is a new species for me.

 

[LostintheOzone]

When we in Ajo AZ a few winters ago I fed the quail and doves twice a day. We were camped on BLM land and the regulars there always fed the birds. I think most of those doves were mourning doves. We also hung out hummingbird feeders. The Gila woodpeckers had a way of hanging upside down on the feeders and drinking out of them. Can't say as I've ever seen a woodpecker on hummingbird feeder before that.

 

[armadillo]

I love white-wings. My avatar is a photo under the feeder in my back yard in suburban San Antonio. In the summer I usually have at least a dozen white-wings - they turn up their noses at anything that is not sunflower seed.

I grew up about 900 miles down river from El Paso and we had them in droves. Hunting was great as long as you stayed clear of the out-of-towners.

Later I lived in El Paso and there were a lot there too - mostly in the valley.

 

[JayFramer]

Cute birds.

But do they have large talons?

 

[Roadtrash]

There are still plenty of white wings in the desert around Phoenix but they seem to migrate just about the time hunting season starts. I'll see thousands before the season starts and then only a couple after it starts. But there are still more morning doves hanging around than the law allows you to take. As I type this I can hear three different ones calling outside.

 

[Watchdog]

I photographed these two beautiful doves outside my window.

 

[woodsltc]

Doves are best enjoyed as "Jalapeño Dove Poppers" IMO:

Ingredients
6 Dove breasts, deboned
1 cup Italian Dressing
12 Jalapeno peppers (large)
12 slices bacon
1/2 cup Cream cheese
24 toothpicks
Directions
Marinate dove breasts in Italian dressing overnight in refrigerator.
Cut peppers length-wise on one side and remove seeds and inner membrane.
Stuff pepper with 1/2 of dove breast and 1 teaspoon of cream cheese (more or less, depending on the size of each pepper). Wrap stuffed pepper with 1 slice of bacon, securing ends with toothpicks.
Place peppers on medium high preheated grill and cook until bacon looks transparent and dove is medium-well.
Serve.

Don

 

[walkin jack]

39 years ago, when we bought this house. The morning doves were some of the most common visitors to our feeders. somehow over the years they have been completely displaced by an enormous population of white wing doves. We no longer see any ring neck or Asian or any other virety of doves. The white wings rule...