Do you have any Blue Jays ? They can teach those Mourning Doves a thing or two about assertiveness. LOL One of my BILs mother lives in Arkansas and she, too, has a yard full of birds. She has lots of bird houses and feeders but in the winter she also makes a few feeding stations that hang from tree branches or on plant hangers outside her kitchen windows. She winds a length of fine wire around the top of a pinecone then coats the pinecone with peanut butter and then packs birdseed all around the cone. She says they love it.
What a neat idea. I will have to try that. Surely there are some pine cones around here somewhere. I just don't happen to have any.
Yes, I have bluejays. They are such characters. I just got back from the store stocking up on birdseed (again), and picked up some raw peanuts. The Jays will often beat the squirrels to them.