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Post by stevein on Sept 6, 2024 19:22:35 GMT -5
Well it has been a long, long time since I have seen a quail up here. There were 4 that crossed in front of me. 3 hens and a cock. I let them by but as I got thinking I backed up to see if I could get pictures of them. They went into a bean field and I had zero hopes of seeing them again. All of a sudden one zipped across an opening and into some pines. Finally took a couple of pics. Crappy at best. I blew them up a little and brightened one.   |
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Post by marshallco on Sept 6, 2024 21:48:41 GMT -5
Cool! We used to have a couple coveys that we could bump around where I hunt deer now, some pheasants too. But shoot, that was 25-30 years ago. Haven’t heard a quail or pheasant around here in years.
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Post by stevein on Sept 7, 2024 7:44:17 GMT -5
They never recovered after the blizzard of 78. A guy down the road released some 20 or so years ago but then the property between us got busted up and they planted several houses on the land. Those people have no use for Quail cover.
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Post by duff on Sept 7, 2024 18:08:10 GMT -5
The property I have been hunting has quail, not many, but enough to startle me a few times each season.
One of the owners told me he has seen more rabbits this year than ever before but no quail. Who knows.
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Post by stevein on Sept 7, 2024 20:04:39 GMT -5
I miss the predawn covey flushes. Kind of warmed a guy up in the morning.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Sept 9, 2024 6:05:04 GMT -5
My brother's farm has 2 or 3 covey of quails. Good to see them coming back.
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Post by esshup on Sept 9, 2024 21:18:27 GMT -5
About 10 years ago I heard a quail at the lake house. I couldn't figure out why one would be there. I did some more listening, and it was coming from the cottonwood tree out front. Looking with binoculars I found it. It was a Starling that was imitating the "bob-White" song. Grrrrrrrrr.....................
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Post by bgiancola on Sept 24, 2024 13:30:30 GMT -5
Local QF group has posted a few updates of large coveys flushing in the southern half of the state.
Fingers crossed, they continue growing... toes crossed that the Pheasant population in NE Illinois makes it's way across the border...we've taken a couple wild roosters in NW Indiana in the last year.
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