Im going up to my buddy's place sometime this weekend to help him do the final top sewing of wheat on his field. Just curious, are yall seeing any birds anywhere? Normally this time of year I see several groups on powerlines as I go to and from work but Im just not seeing any right now. What say you? I hope its not this bad on opening day.

Not much.

SAME here..

What I had disappeared.

we had a good bunch 10 days ago. not so many now

About half what I normally see by now.

I was then I wasn’t I believe a bunch more arrived yesterday because they were everywhere yesterday afternoon. Most I have seen all year

A few in the last week and a half, but still nowhere close to what I normally see. Maybe next weeks cool front will make them fly.

I know they are cutting corn down here so they might be kinda spread out. Cutting corn should be finished up soon though.

Seeing what we normally see so far. The next 2 weeks is when they normally start piling up. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. I’ll still have fun. (We always shoot the 2nd weekend)

Very low numbers this year for me but they have picked up in the last few days. I had 40-50 yesterday afternoon but they are picking corn which always scatters them for me.

Not what we normally have. Good pond and pivot water source but birds aren’t here? Few corn fields being cut so it could still happen. Wheat May be our friend this year.

I guess I'll see what my buddy's place has as far as numbers come Sunday.....going up to bush hog some stuff and get ready for opening day. Thanks for your replies guys !!

Yep I’m seeing the birds yesterday and today. Burned another section of millet yesterday afternoon and they were in it this morning. Sitting here watching them now come in during a shower of rain. No telling what will happen by next Saturday with the temp drop, may pick up birds or lose birds. Going to my buddies farm in Tennessee tomorrow for opening day up there. He had birds yesterday so I guess we will see.

With the big cold front predicted for mid week, there may be a lot of disappointed hunters come next Saturday.

Or you will have fresh birds by opening weekend! Ya got to think positive fur.

They are here in Jackson County. Seen more yesterday evening than i have yet. Who knows how this front will affect them

Still have good numbers here in Jackson county too. Had a good quick opening day in Tennessee yesterday but got a little wet and quit at 5

Decent numbers has showed up in the past few days

Finally had about 50 birds this morning.

Seeing a lot of birds here in Calhoun County.

Poof! Ours are gone

We bush hogged 3 fields Sunday up at Oneonta and I did see a fair number of birds coming in throughout the day hitting what was already on the plowed ground. Two of those sunflower/millet fields that we bush hogged will be burned Wednesday (tomorrow) ahead of this rain coming. I'm like the rest of yall that are saying,.....this front will either drive new birds in or either drive what already here out. I guess we'll see whats up Saturday.

Seeing about half of what I had 3 weeks ago.

Neighbors experiencing the same.

Still enough to have a good shoot but not as good.

Buddy whose land we're hunting this weekend has been seeing them consistently for the last several days, as recently as yesterday. Fingers crossed they stay.

GomerJr has only been on 1 dove hunt, a few years ago, and he was going as my bird dog. It was a terrible hunt and not a single shot was fired. He's going again this weekend and taking his granddad's single-shot 20g, hoping to put it to work. Hopefully he gets plenty of opportunities to miss

Good luck Saturday Gomer.

Our birds are as thick as ever so we will see come sat. I’ve seen it change quick.

They be gone Friday. You'll be hunting a fence line on opening day 🤣

Been watching fields the past 3 days. We could have burned the barrels up based on what I’ve seen. Hoping the weather doesn’t change them by Saturday

I want to wish everyone good luck tomorrow . If you're like me, you'll shoot 3 boxes of shells and have 4 birds, lol. I have not heard any report on bird numbers in the last couple of days at the place I go, I reckon tomorrow with the front coming in will be the test.
Shoot straight yall !!

Good luck everyone

Ok, yall sound off with how it went Saturday?
It started off slow for me at Noon with just a few random birds here and there coming across the field from time to time. That morning front that rolled in did affect them early I think but by maybe 2 pm things started getting a little better and the clouds dissipated, sun came out and they flew a little better. There was one point around 445pm where a nice group of I'd guess 20+ or so birds came in all at once and just about everyone was able to get some shots off at them which was fun !! I think I ended up getting 11 or 12 put in the bucket and lost 3 or 4 more due to high grass and a creek. I did get a double also. I dont remember doing that a a long while.
I did notice just about all the birds that were shot were young and small ,hardly any larger doves were collected. I hope that all of you had a great shoot and had fun.

Folks I were with had a good shoot. I, did not. Think I pulled the trigger three times. Just didn't fly my way, and the few that did got stroked by a guy 50 yards to my left before they got close enough for me to shoot. Beer was cold and the food was good.

Odo, Ive been there before. Sometimes it just happens like that for no reason. As long as you ate good is rated as a good day to me

Birds flew ok for us......not great, but I've seen worse. We didn't have enough guns around the field to keep them in the field and a lot managed to get in/out without ever even getting shot at. Apparently I've completely forgotten how to shoot a bird since the last time I dove hunted though. I couldn't hit water if I'd fallen out of a boat. GomerJr didn't hit anything either (not shocked since he's never shot at a bird) but he got to pull the trigger a few times and had fun. Hoping to go again later in the year.

Had about 60 on my field early Sat am. Dont know where they went because it was very slow for us. I had exactly 15 in the bucket but my 13yrold girl killed the majority of those. She was knocking them off the line with a little short barreled 20ga. 17yr old had a few and her boyfriend had some. My neighbor had several as well but I had more fun ragging him about all the ones he was missing. Im guessing we killed 30-35 total. Overall we had a decent hunt but the slowest its ever been on my place.

Slow as expected. 75 or 80 birds with 23 guns.

I think there were 19-20 limits killed on the field we hunted so overall pretty good.

We had a great Friday afternoon hunt yesterday with just a few friends. Cloudy and breezy and steady birds flying