Date: 6/22/26 9:25 pm
From: Suzanne Kent <surreykent...>
Subject: Re: [MBBIRDS] Mourning Dove Irruption
On Westside Santa Cruz, at the edge of Meder Canyon (also known as Arroyo Seco I think), my platform feeder often has a visiting flock of 20 Band-tailed pigeons - and at other times 1-2 Mourning Doves, rarely 3-4.

> On Jun 22, 2026, at 5:46 PM, 'Louise West' via mbbirds <mbbirds...> wrote:
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> My neighbor here in Felton has had as many at 20 BTPs in her yard.
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> Louise West
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>> On Jun 22, 2026, at 4:49 PM, Lola Ross <lolabones...> wrote:
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>> I would try to confirm if they are perhaps seeing band-tailed pigeons? I’m on the far Westside of SC near Natural Bridges, and have never seen that many mourning doves together anywhere, but I have seen large groups of BTPs up the coast in the Davenport area.
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>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM Grey Hayes <17coastalprairie17...> <mailto:<17coastalprairie17...>> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
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>> Anyone else seen an irruption of mourning doves? A neighbor in Newtown, Davenport is seeing 50-100 and they rarely saw any historically.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Grey Hayes
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