Something's up across the Eastern range. The biologists are puzzled.
On our farm up until about 5 years ago I could stand on the main ridge and hear 10-12 gobblers. Now I'm lucky to hear 2 or three, and they are off the property. The State is doing all kinds of studies, and is only coming up with possible answers. I read of similar conditions in many other states.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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