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Now is the time to begin your scouting for doves and a place to hunt them.
Dove season opens at noon Sept. 2 and allows a limit of 12 birds per day.
It’s not too early to make the contacts with the landowner where you intend to hunt. Remember that land is the key to providing the doves an area to rest and feed on their southerly migration.
You may have noticed a lot of doves moving into the agricultural areas in the last two to three weeks. That primarily results from the cold fronts that have marched across southern Canada recently and have sent some of the older birds scurrying for warmer climes.
Many of the doves you may be seeing now are local doves that have spent their summer here instead of farther north in the grain belt.
With the recent harvests of small grain crops — oats, barley, rye. wheat — the doves have moved from the yards and ballfields of the cities and into the farmlands to pick up the spilled grains.
Later, as the corn crops are cut into ensilage for the silos, a lot of farmland will be exposed to sunlight and the eyesight of the doves. The sunlight that was blocked out by the com will now mature and dry the seeds of the ragweed, a primary food of the doves as they pass through this area on their annual migration.
Many dove hunters believe that the doves feed on the spilled corn from the silage cutter, but except for some small bits of cracked com, a dove would choke to death on a whole grain of com.
The newly harvested cornfields are the primary hunting areas of dove hunters, both because of the open and
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