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For the past two weeks I have been consistently getting 2 pair of mourning doves at my feeders. Last year at work I'd get sets of 50 to 100 doves at a time. Are these birds becoming more common on the west side or am I just at the right place at the right time?
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Fill a feeder, and they will come.... I get bunches of em at my feeder, along with a host of other species.
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I'd like to check her for tics!!
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We've had'em here at Sequim for at least the last 10 years.
Lots of winters they stick around all year, and never do migrate.
Like possums, I never remember having any around here when I was younger. 
Mine usually feed on the ground, where the redwings kick the food out of the feeders.
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I've got a fairly good year round population too. Plenty hanging around in the winter. Ground feeders along with the quail, song birds, and more recently a pair of mallards that are probably looking for an appropriate nesting location.
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I'd like to check her for tics!!
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I've got a fairly good year round population too. Plenty hanging around in the winter. Ground feeders along with the quail, song birds, and more recently a pair of mallards that are probably looking for an appropriate nesting location.
Several pairs of mallards, a couple of geeese  , quail, Brewers and redwing blackbirds, house finches, pine siskins, gold finches, on and on... 
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Thanks navigator I'm just around the corner in Port Townsend, I don't remember seeing these birds at all growing up and definetely not in large numbers, glad to hear that their becoming more common.
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