We have a ton of these in our area and they've become a real problem on our bird feeder. About a dozen dove come in and run all the little birds off it. The game dept. doesn't care if you shoot or trap them. I bought a pellet rifle a couple of mos. ago and have them pretty nervous but they just kept coming in when I wasn't looking. I built this cage to go around the feeder hoping to keep the dove off the feeder yet let the little ones in. So far it's working good as the little ones come and go and haven't seen a dove on the feeder yet. If they figure a way around this I'll devise a live trap for them.
Mike
Mike