I was asked again about bird production. This year has been so favorable with the right amount of moisture and no bad hailstorms, floods, etc, that I wouldn't be surprised to see at least two hatches of both quail and pheasant. Its been wet and I have seen clouds of bugs, and the chicks feast on that high protein diet.
On the minus side, in recent years I have not seen enough country boys cruising the back roads in pickup trucks with .223 rifles or greyhound boxes in back. Those boys used to keep down the fox and coyote population because once the greyhounds start running a coyote, its as well as dead. And I don't see as many dead redtails and white legged hawks underneath the power lines as we used to see. If we can get better predator control, that would improve the gamebird population. We used to have bounties on those animals in more enlightened times.
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