#Birdhunting September 3

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Today is the start of a popular BIRDHUNTING Season in North Carolina.

For North Carolina hunters they will be looking for Mourning and White-Tailed Doves. I have friends that treat today as a very special event.

I know the group depicted above will be out at sunrise this morning possibly at Allen Brothers in Bladenboro NC with hopes of bagging their limit. Opening day of Dove Season got me thinking about just how many deer, bear, squirrels, ducks, and doves get harvested each year by North Carolina hunters.

I located a PDF that has those NC statistics.

Those harvest numbers revealed that in North Carolina hunters harvested over 35,000 coyotes. I had seen news reports of their increased numbers but just did not know that large of number had been killed by hunters.

The fact is coyotes have now been spotted in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Cary on a regular basis.

Other interesting numbers were that dove’s represented the largest number of kills with around 750,000 taken in the state.

One final stat that caught my eye was I had no idea that North Carolina harvested as many bobcats and bears each year. I was really shocked to learn that 36 bears were killed in nearby Cumberland County in 2021. Only 1 was harvested in Robeson County.

The bobcat can be found in all 100 of North Carolina counties.

If I am lucky, I will be sampling some results from my BIRDHUNTER friends by the end of the month. Dove breast meat wrapped in bacon cooked on a grill is good eating.