Variations on a Theme - various dove carvings for the 2024 ODCCA show and contests.
Flying Mourning Dove - carved from a Palm Frond and painted with acrylics - for the Palm Frond decoy contest - 2024.
Miniature Mourning Dove - Cocktail Bird Contest at the ODCCA show in 2024.
Antique Flying Dove Decoy - 2024
Mourning Dove Decoys - made of wood to sit on top of a telephone wire 20' off the ground for a Dove hunting club in Florida (October 2023).
White-Winged Dove Decoys - made of cork and wood to sit on top of a telephone wire 20' off the ground for a Dove hunting club in Florida (August 2023).
Happy customer with proof they work great!
2023 - Dead Dove wall hanger on barn siding to commemorate a child's first dove taken in the field.
Mourning Dove carving on barn siding, carved from cedar, painted in acrylics - August 2022.
Dead mount dove carving - March 2022
2022 Mourning Doves - 3 on left are plastic reproductions of my original carving from an old growth California Redwood tree, 5 doves on right are hand carved cork decoys, and dead mount dove on wall is tupelo wood.
Cork Doves - hand carved and painted in 2022. Tails and heads are reinforced with wooden dowels, beaks are reinforced with metal rods.
2022 Plastic Roto-Molded doves, cast from my original wood carving, hand painted, beaks reinforced with steel rod. Can be displayed on a metal stand, hung on my weighted wires, or a quarter-inch dowel. These are meant to be hunting decoys, very durable. Email me if interested. Limited quantities, while supplies last...
Reproduction dove decoys. Cast from my original carvings, rugged plastic decoys on weighted wire, hand painted, steel reinforced bills, life like paint, durable, economical alternative to my hand carved wooden decoys. $35 each. Send me an email if interested, limited supply, when they’re gone, they’re gone! Most have already migrated to Texas, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Alabama, West Virginia, and Ohio. Handful left, inquire for availability.
Flock of hand carved cedar mourning dove decoys headed to Chicago, Illinois, 2021
Hey! They really work!!
Alternative mounting method to sit on top of a wire at a dove hunting club in Maryland.
Flock of 2020 doves heading into Richmond, Virginia.
Flock of Mourning Doves headed to New Braunfels, TX - 2019
Flock of Mourning Doves headed to New Braunfels, TX - 2019
Eurasian Collared Doves and Mourning Doves headed for Texas - 2019.
Best of Show - Ohio Dove Decoy contest - 2019
2018 antique style mourning dove carved from cedar.
2018 rig of 9 mourning doves carved from basswood.