Tom,

Your note about the blackened mourning dove reminded me of something I 
meant to post last week.  On Labor Day I found a pile of 40-50 dead mourning 
doves in the margin of one of the back fields at Hughes Hollow.  All had been 
shot and likely retrieved by dogs.  MD DNR posts the hunting limits for webless 
migrants here: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/huntersguide/weblesschart.asp . 
Clearly someone exceeded their 12 per day limit and shamelessly piled up the 
carcasses.

Here is the DNR notice on public dove fields which includes McKee-Beshers 
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/dovefields.pdf.
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David Gersten
Silver Spring, MD