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Wed, Feb 24, 10 at 10:40
| I hung a thistle sock under an eave near a window. Next to the sock, I have a shepherd's hook with a vine growing up it. The past few days, each morning, a pair of mourning doves flies to the shepherd's hook, and then each one flies past the thistle sock to the gutter then back, in apparent frustration in not being able to reach the thistle sock. I think I might move the shepherd's hook today for the fun of it just to see a mourning dove eating from the thistle sock! I'm easily amused.
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- Posted by callalilykris (My Page) on Thu, Feb 25, 10 at 19:32
| I have two thistle feeders and the mourning doves eat the seed that falls to the ground under them. I sometimes have large flocks of them. |
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| I always toss a mix of seeds on the ground for the doves, especially the hen scratch which has a lot of cracked corn in it. |
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| I've got a BOSS feeder in another spot in the yard and the doves are often searching for seed on the ground, below it. It's interesting to see them fly over to the top of the shepherd's hook and attempt to reach the thistle sock which is 5' off the ground. I moved the hook closer to the sock to see what they do if they can actually reach the sock as I've never seen a dove eat from a feeder. Does anyone else have the word "eating" in my original post, coming up underlined and green? I didn't do that when I posted and I've never seen that happen before on this site. |
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