It's nice to see some data instead of anecdotal accounts. Just part of the picture, but, like grouse drumming counts and bobwhite covey counts, it helps in understanding population trends.
I hope you get your rain when it's needed. Here, for our bobwhites, we need the rain to be "normal" during the nesting and brooding seasons. We lost lots of birds during our weeks long snow/ice/cold spell.
Fingers are crossed.
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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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