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Has anyone had any luck hunting wild birds this past year?

Not too many....

Where are they going?

i wish....i'll be lucky to spot a wild bird around illinois. our bird population is nothing thanks to coyotes. last year i asked a few farmes if they have seen any roosters on there property, and one guy said that in the past 5 years, he has only seen one rooster on his farm. well if you go past central illinois, you may find some bird population there. suxs when you can only hunt conservation birds.

We head out to NW Iowa every year...the past 2 years have been unbelievably great! Around here however, is quite a different story unfortunately.

HERE IN VERMONT IT HASN'T BEEN AWFULL IT HAS BEEN BETTER THOUGH . LIKE MOST SPOTS THOUGH YOU DON'T TELL MANY PEOPLE IF YOU FIND A GOOD ONE OR YOU'LL HAVE A BUCH OF PEOPLE IN THERE.

Grouse are finally on the way back up. Thank god.

Hope we see them all this year.


Griff Man

The grouse are doing well here - Northumberland, UK. We finished the grouse counts a couple of weeks ago and all the birds were up from last year.

Helen

I hesitate to post this after reading of others less than stellar season not wanting to sound like a braggart but we had a very good year. We moved 126 coveys this past year and took 337 quail this past season.

Bunch of pheasants where we are, not too many quail anymore!

Here in western Oregon thats all there is is wild birds, just going out here and there once or twice a week I shot around 40 ruffed, 10 blue grouse, 30 or so mountain quail and probably about 10 valley quail. My pup has no idea what a farm raised bird is.

Just caught this post and thought I'd reply.............here in Western and Central Wisconsin I had mixed luck. The grouse numbers were dismal but still managed to take quite a few with ALOT of walking and days in the woods. Woodcock flight this year seemed to be a bit sporadic as well but was still able to bag enough of them to keep the beast, (my Weim) interested. The pheasant numbers here in Western WI was unbelievably good!!! Best numbers I've ever seen. Hopefully the grouse numbers start climbing but I'm not holding my breath as the drumming counts were down again this year. Sorry for the long post and shoot straight!!!

In central and southern Illinois, the best luck is with quail. There's tons of em. In central and northern Illinois the best luck is with phesants. Not too many quail north of Champaign, and not too many phesants south.

Here in Ohio there are very few birds anymore, The northwest part of the state offer the best I think for ringnecks.
We hunt Jackson county for Grouse and took 16 last year with a whole lot of work and many hours of hunting. To bad we don't have as many birds as we do deer.

here in florida bird populations is very good on private lands
good in some management areas ,poor in others
i wold say a average morning was 3 coveys of birds
my body count wasnt good between old dogs tireing out quickly
& poor shooting on my part
but i bought a few younger dogs & hit the skeet range this summer
it helps to be there at 6:45 am to whistle

just saw this and would like to report that Ks bird pop is great both pheasant and quail (bobwhite)!

bobwhite is right thats what you here in florida middle of hunting season & its 78 degress outside

We are taking lots of pheasants again this year. Our prarie grouse are better than last year but still in a down cycle. We hunt mostly public land and if you are willing to work and walk you can usually harvest limits of birds. We have a very limited amount of quail in the south east part of the state. I usually start looking for them after Thanksgiving. So hopefully the first week or two of December we may be able to get after them.SDGORD

ditch parrots what a wonderfullway to mess up a young dog

why do you say that ward myers?

they run & get up wild instead of holding for a dog

Who said anything about parrots? Did I miss it?

Ayres wrote:Who said anything about parrots? Did I miss it?

Slang for Pheasants!

Trussle Parrots= pigeons................

pear wrote:Trussle Parrots= pigeons................

Flying Rats!

pigeons here =skyrats
squirrels=tree rats