Just learned that there was only a handful of birds (10-20)seen over the weekend on the field we're planning on shooting Saturday in Butler County.

What is everyone else seeing?

Maybe Harvey held them up?

The cool snap this week shouldn't help either, it will send the ones we got off.

We've been watching around 2 to 300 birds, up until last Thursday! Now It's poof they be gone lol...

We've got the most I've seen in years, here in Northeast AL.

Let us know what happens when the front moves through tomorrow. I figure it's gonna push them south.

Heading out to Tennessee on Saturday.

We shot here in Mississippi yesterday. Shot a few, nothing special. They all limited on Saturday.

If I could have shot any day over the past month, a limit probably would have come pretty easy.

I'm worried sick about what this front might do.

Like 257 said in the other thread....it's mostly resident birds here now. If the food is there, they should hang around. The small front last week actually brought more birds if anything. They are sketchy, and there are no guarantees until 3:30 on Saturday. You'll find out what ya got then. Plan on having a good time regardless of what the dove do and all will be just fine. Satisfaction of hunting has become based on how many you can kill and not just enjoying the day with family and buddies. I wish everyone could understand that it's out of our control, but that's just not possible I guess with some. That's why I'm done with doing a paid shoot. I've done enough this year for friends and family to come hang out and hopefully shoot some and have a good time. Good luck!

I had around 100 birds on my power line that runs across my 1/2 acre millet patch about two weeks ago. They started picking corn near me and this morning I only saw about 35. My numbers have trended down big time the past week.

Me too. We had a high pressure move over a couple years ago, it only dropped the temps 5-10 degrees, and it sure made the birds we had move on. Luckily it was about a week before the shoot and new birds had moved in. The fact that this front is only 2 days prior to the opener is the worrying part.

I agree John. I obviously would like to shoot a few, but the work I've done to this point is more for friends and family. I just want the birds to cooperate for them.

We'll have a good time regardless, but hearing shotguns roar all afternoon sure would be music to my ears.

I totally agree. Lots of shooting is "icing on the cake"!

Seeing fewer this year than any other year I can remember.

Beer will still be cold and the food/friends will be a good time.

I've got a really good number as of yesterday. This front should screw that up good for me. Just hope some birds move down from up north to take their place.

I don't think front is going to be near as extreme as advertised.

I was seeing a lot more birds a couple of weeks ago. I attributed seeing less birds due to people starting to bait fields. Yesterday, I sat at the field for 40 minutes and counted 46 birds pitch down. This is a small 2-3 acre field for only about 4-5 of us. I wonder, if you see 46, what does that translate into total birds. 200 maybe? Sure there's a dove guru formula for figuring total number of birds visiting a field.

I've always wondered that too

We'll be hunting in the Fyffe area. Got a picked corn field. Suppose to be lotta birds on it. Who knows what'll happen come Saturday. If any other fields get picked close by I'm sure our birds will disperse.

No doubt that every Tom, Dick and Harry throwing seed out thins them out some. That along with crops being harvested, weeds in cutovers seeding out, etc. etc.
I've always hear to double the number that you see, but who knows how you figure that accurately.

Heh heh heh. Cold front coming going to push them into FL.

I saw good numbers of birds in FL last weekend.