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Gary Laudermilch 08-18-2017 10:35 AM

Wonder How Many Grouse They Eat
 
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I'll bet more than a few!

James Rhodenizer 08-18-2017 11:05 AM

I just wanted to update you on the West Nile survey we did in Va. last year. We had less than 3% positive in our blood samples. We will be doing the survey again this year, but it does not seem to be as bad as Pa. good luck this season and take care of the kitty.

Harold Lee Pickens 08-18-2017 11:25 AM

Gary, I bet they get their share, they are so sneaky. I have seen bobcats several times while bowhunting on my farm in Ohio, and you cant have a trail camera out anywhere around here without mutiple pictures, often of several different cats. I suspect the bobcat population is far greater than we would think

Gary Laudermilch 08-18-2017 11:32 AM

Hmm, good news for Va. Perhaps I need to plan a trip.

Gary Laudermilch 08-18-2017 12:01 PM

Another Denizen Of The Woods
 
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I like to begin getting serious about dog conditioning this time of year. A few days ago this guy was sunning right where I planned to run the dogs. I found a new place to run! Did manage to get a grouse pointed on a very short run so West Nile did not get them all, yet.

Mark Landskov 08-18-2017 05:42 PM

We have lotsa cats and badgers here. I bet they eat their fair share of chicks and eggs. On a good note, the DNR told us the grouse numbers should be up this fall.

charlie cleveland 08-18-2017 09:44 PM

ther s lot s of bobcats around my area..wnen i was a boy you were lucky to see a bobcat in a life time...our biggest problem we have in the south is fire ants...charlie

Jim Wescott 08-20-2017 05:13 PM

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Bobcat and gray fox numbers are up here in Maine. Looks like another good hatch for ground nesting birds. August wild turkey brood survey has yielded 94 gobblers, 82 hens and 292 poults. Had a very friendly young male partridge visit our rock picking expedition yesterday near shore of Sebago Lake. He entertained us for quite a spell.

Stephen Hodges 08-22-2017 10:14 AM

I suspect they take there share of Grouse and they also prey heavily on Wild Turkeys. Here in NH we have had a population explosion of Bobcats which the Fish and Game Department attributes directly to the large Turkey population that we have now.

Todd Poer 10-29-2017 09:35 AM

BTW a great read if your a fan of Daniel Boone and reading about some his exploits is a Biography called Life of Daniel Boone. I cannot remember the author will have to dig the book out again. However, it was actually written in mid 1800's but never published until the 1990's. The author was a historian that finished someone else's work but kept the same style of technical writing biographers from that era. Needless to say, it is an arduous style to read with documented interviews and accounts from direct sources and family members that knew the man. It can be quite wandering.

Anyway enough of the preface to my point, essentially about 250 years ago Kentucky looked about like what a good bit eastern woodlands were before the europeans settled the area. It documents at how much game the woodlands would produce and support. Turkey flocks in the 100's, deer everywhere, even tremendous herds of Buffalo and elk until the market hunters and settlers with no limits or seasons just decimated the game populations in a very short period of time.

Things are always changing even if you try and manage portions of it cause and effect are hard to identify, regulate or correct. There are some great success stories, mostly nowadays about turkey and deer populations, some species may find it too hard to get back to a thriving wild population like bob white quail. Different reasons for success of that wild population.

Grouse populations actually benefit from mans logging activities. Game numbers, management and hunter roles in all aspects are critical and complex. I like it where biologists say drum counts are up 57% from last year. Makes no mention of where it is in the 7 to 10 year cycle. If you look at the actual numbers that could mean last years drum beat was 3 and this years was 4.8. Anticipation is an incredible aphrodisiac and market force.


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