The friendly neighborhood Coopers Hawk comes in fast and low and explodes one pretty regularly.

LOL, When you feed the birds, you feed ALL the birds.

Had a Coopers hawk use my house as a blocker.... it would come in from behind the house, shoot up over the roof and be on the birds before they could react....clever bugger....

clever and extremely fast. looks like a bomb exploded inside doves and pigeons when they hit them.

I have been teaching them to do tricks for food, here they are learning to build a dove pyramid to look in the kitchen window to beg for more bird seed.

There was one sitting in my drive way frozen dead with snow drifting around it last night... sad.

Guess they forgot to migrate

We have a bunch here

I'd eat some. The breasts are real good wrapped in bacon.

Same at my place. Those Coopers hawks love to eat morning doves

Found out they are not the bird of peace I have been led to believe. Had a red bellied woodpecker harassing one of them and it pecked the woodpecker on the head. Woodpecker flew into the tree and attacked the dove from above. Before I knew what was going on the dove had the red belly pinned down just wearin him out. Even the jays are giving the doves space. Mikec

Wasn’t long ago, i fixed my dinner with grilled, bacon-wrapped doves.