Winter dove hunting is usually feast or famine. Places that you hunted in September that helped lots of birds may be mute. By December there is much less food available for the doves to feed. Most milo maize fields and corn fields have long been plowed under. But if you can find a field full of seeds, you may find doves in abundance.
Years ago I spotted a silo dug out of the rocks in a low cliff. It was full of winter feed for cattle. But nobody told the doves that it was for cattle. Doves poured in morning and evening to eat from such a windfall.
One icy December or January morning (it’s been so many years since that I can’t remember which month) Ron Carnes and I headed for Kyle to hunt the silo. On the way we saw a man lying on an icy sidewalk at the Kyle rest stop. We stopped to see what had happened. He was in great pain with a broken leg. We took him back to San Marcos to the hospital. Now we were late for our dove hunt. Are the birds still feeding?
