Went out today and got 3 blues, and one quail. I saw a couple more coveys, but they were still kinda small. I had an interesting thing happen with one of the coveys. I saw them dissapear around a corner of an old landing. I got the dogs after them, and flushed a couple out. My Lab started acting real birdy, and I got into position. She jumped into a ditch and out came a rooster. Not a pheasant, but a cocka doodle doo type. I was 5 miles fromt he nearest farm and out comes one of those feathery legged banty chickens. It flew right past me. Then I heard a squaking and see my Springer snatch a hen out of the air. I called her over to me, and took the chicken away. I checked it over, and all it had was its feathers ruffled. I tossed it up into a 15' tall doug fir tree and it landed on the limb. The dogs gave me a weird look like, " why did you throw him back" " You never do that" .