ORIGINAL: bluebird2
The statewide pheasant season just ended last Saturday but I have been seeing dozens of pheasants right here in Elk County
If you are seeing dozens of pheasants ,why aren't the predators seeing those same birds and having an easy dinner?
In the Dakotas the pheasants have the protective cover along streams and ditches with windswept corn fields to provide food. What do the pheasants eat in Elk with 2 ft. of snow cover and no grain fields?
in most of SGL land here in wmu2g, most of pheasants are gone the first week after stocked.
hunting and predators are reason..i was at millers gun shop and talked to lee ann.
she said they stocked pheasants on their land and did not hunt them for a week.
she said MOST were gone,it had to be fox,coyotes that did it and i would put FOX at top of the pheasant killers.