[Rhodes22-list] Morning Doves

[Grayson/Ena Lynn]

Well couldn't you just guess that our little resident band of wind-driven nimrods knows nothing about the beautiful mourning dove except how to kill it.  Can't even get the name right.

The mourning dove (NOT  "morning", please) is one of only four known species of the genus Zenaida.  Another is the white-winged dove of the southwest.  A third, the Zenaida dove, has been pretty much driven out of its Florida habitat, but may occasionally be found on various Caribbean islands.  The fourth species, the Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni, as it happens), has been driven to extinction by humans within the past 30 years.  All are gone.  Can't kill any more.  Oh darn.

Mourning doves are plentiful and quite tame;  with the right food and a little patience you can shoot them right out of the bird feeder at mealtimes.

The common domestic pigeon, or Rock dove, is an entirely different bird, of the genus Columba.  I'll leave it to you and Google to sort out the rest.

<G>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Morning Doves


Slim,

Here on the streets of New York we call them "Pigeons".

In the fancy restaurants we call them "Squab".

A few years ago, one of the largest purveyors of "Wild Squab" was discovered under the Manhattan Bridge netting pigeons by the hundreds.

Bill Effros


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Alm 
To: Rhodes 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:33 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Hunting, was Forecast for Thursday


Steve and Brad  (and welcome back, Brad!)

Here in Minnesota, they've just instated a season on morning doves. [Gasp!]
You can't believe the flap this little bird is causing--pun intended.  It's
come down to a fierce argument over whether it is technically a song bird or
not.  These bleeding heart Minnesotans are too much!  And of course they
think the hunters are shooting them with...what else?  Assault rifles!  8-)

If huntin' is a redneck thing then Shit-damn, y'all!  Where's that no-good
hound o' mine?  If God didn't want us to eat critters, He wouldn't have made
'em out of meat.  Morning doves...yuummmmm!  Tastes like chicken!

Good luck this season, Steve

Slim

On 9/15/04 10:07 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> :-)good one, Brad
> I like a good hunting story.  We lease 3100 arce,
> about an hour south of Litle Rock.  I enjoy the
> camping also.  We keep the club capped at 35 member (
> I think we are currently around 31), so there is never
> over crouding or to many hunters.  I enjoy the peace &
> quite.  
> Steve
> 
> --- brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>> 
>> When I had my farm outside of Nashville, (Tennessee
>> is
>> a written permission state) I always had lots of
>> friends during deer season since I don't hunt.  They
>> were more that welcome to come take a shot at the
>> "rats with antlers".  My neighbor had a much simpler
>> system that yours.  He would get up before sunrise,
>> put on a pot of coffee, and read in his underwear.
>> When the deer would show up to nibble on his fruit
>> trees he'd take the biggest one by shooting out the
>> kitchen window.  This also served as a wake-up call
>> for his wife to help him load it for the check-in
>> station.  He got the largest buck two years running.
>> 
>> Brad Haslett
>> "CoraShen"
>> 
>> --- Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well then, you are going to love this.  I also
>> have
>>> automatic corn feeders that go off at dawn and 1
>>> hour
>>> before dark.  They have photocells on them so the
>>> time
>>> is automaticly adjusted.  Much more advanced than
>>> the
>>> old timer method:-)
>>> 
>>> Also, I brought me a cell phone with a zoom camera
>>> in
>>> it.  That way, I can take the buck picture; before
>> I
>>> kill it:-)
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- Grayson/Ena Lynn <agl2001 at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Now let's see if I understand this:
>>>> 
>>>> You actually go out and deliberately plant bait
>> to
>>>> bring the deer closer so
>>>> that you can shoot them more conveniently from
>>>> ambush at your several
>>>> blinds?  And you call that hunting?
>>>> 
>>>> What idiot ever sold you a boat?
>>>> 
>>>> <G>
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
>>>> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:42 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Forecast for
>> Thursday
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Rummy
>>>>> I wish we would get some rain.  I planted a
>> food
>>>> plot
>>>>> for deer hunting 4 weeks ago.  Not one good
>> rain
>>>> storm
>>>>> to make the plants grow.  Two week ago, I went
>>>> down
>>>>> there to check on it; there were about 20
>>> turkeys
>>>> out
>>>>> in the middle of the food plot feeding on my
>>>> seeds.
>>>>> Bow season for deer hunting starts in 15 days.
>> 
>>> I
>>>>> guess it a good thing I have other deer stands
>>> set
>>>> up
>>>>> in other places.
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>