Dove field management is a frustrating endeavor. I’ve had great looking fields and no birds to speak of. Other years there are plenty. This year I have a hundred on an acre I planted to wheat and jap millet, but they could be gone tomorrow. It’s a lot of work for 1-2 shoots. Have a different spot with 1.5+ acres of wheat with maybe a dozen doves. Some places just naturally hold more birds than others. You can’t squeeze caviar out of a rock.
I did see a collared dove the other day. Man are they big and dumb and slow moving.
Fall plots - the top field will be peas, oats, clover. The bottom field (what is now corn) will be wheat. I’m not going to waste good field real estate on non-existent doves.