My wife raises flowers commercially. She plants all kinds of sunflowers, in many colors and heights. All of them are covered with bees so it doesn't appear to make much difference.
We used to hunt doves but 3 out of 4 years we'll have a cold snap around Sept 1, opening day, and the mournings all migrate out. Since the arrival of the collared doves, mournings are about non-existent anyway. We used to have them nest in the orchard but I haven't heard any of them out there in 3 or 4 years. The collareds like to hang out in more populated areas. It's open season on them year round with no limits but they're usually where you can't shoot.
