Pierce County Doves

[ballstothewaal]

For some reason, I have seen a massive increase in the amount of doves around where I live. I have lived in the Graham area for around 15 years and have never seen this many doves in the area. Is anybody seeing the same thing? I see a flock of about 30-40 flying around our property, and then I have seen them down the road and even more towards town, Anybody else seeing the same thing?

[Duckslayer89]

For some reason, I have seen a massive increase in the amount of doves around where I live. I have lived in the Graham area for around 15 years and have never seen this many doves in the area. Is anybody seeing the same thing? I see a flock of about 30-40 flying around our property, and then I have seen them down the road and even more towards town, Anybody else seeing the same thing?

I see them outside my house they make this owl hoot it's annoying and loud lol

[Smokeploe]

If you can see them clearly, if the have a black slash on the neck/shoulder they are Eurasian doves they are leaflets to shoot all year long.  They are consider an envasive species. They are twice the size of mourning doves and they taste the same, just more meat!

[jackmaster]

They have been around for awhile, I have had a bunch on myroperty for sometime, now that my lab thinks she needs to protect our property from everything I don't have much of anything around..lol.. We see them all over in clay city, I think they are the smaller ones that you can't shoot year around though.. Definetly not an expert on them, I wish the qual were around like they were. And the pheasant, damn, when I was a kid we hunted them with our pellet guns, you never see or hear them over here anymore..

[ballstothewaal]

I still see some quail off of 288th by Webster road around those farms but rarely, I guess I just never noticed the doves! Unfortunately my house falls in the no shooting zone (which is absolutely ridiculous). Ill look into more and figure out what type of doves they are.

[curtmdavis]

 Ingfer farm down in Orting and next to the high school, used to hold a substantial population of them. Now that its waiting to be developed though, not so much.