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We always had large flocks on our grain fields in PEI in Oct/Nov Jim.
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That was back in the 1950s/1960s.
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Where they nested I don't know but do know my mother
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could make them taste delicious after she introduced them to a hot oven.
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Thas was before the days of the Kentucky lad you understand.
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Enjoy the snow
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Paul
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On December 23, 2014 at 2:54 AM Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca&=
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<br/>Dave is again right on about the mourning dove.  When I arrive=
d in Nova Scotia in 1975, mourning doves were almost entirely winter birds =
here, and the first nest was found in 1978 or 79 by Eva Urban at Avonport, =
where Eva had been feeding large winter numbers for many years?  After=
the early 1980s mourning doves gradually and eventually spectacularly incr=
eased in their summer numbers and distribution, so that now for a couple of=
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Cheers from Jim in Whistler, B.C. but soon to be back in N.S.
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<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';"><strong>Re: [Natur=
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Hi Jim & All,
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    You reminded me that I was going to withdraw Mo=
urning Dove as a dumb idea. It could be involved now I suppose but  &#=
62;60 years ago they were absent or very rare and some other creature(s), w=
hich has/have been here all along, must be involved.
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wild lily of the valley fruits & dispersers
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</div> Just a brief comment from one who knows very little.  =
Despite Nick=E2=80=99s or Dave=E2=80=99s comments that the berry-like fruit=
s of this species are nearly fleshless, they are very widespread and abunda=
nt in edge habitats as well as forested ones, I suspect th