RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Arizona in the south is holding nice bird populations-I hunted Nebraska and South Dakota this year and had excellent success with quail-New Mexico is great this year for Blues

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Here in iowa the Quail hunting sucks. I shot one this season and it is the only one i killed

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Here in West Texas the numbers are fantastic on Blues and in North Central Texas the Bobs are the best I've seen............

Today, using the West Texas Surround technique, we cleaned 140 Blues after today's hunt.........the were 13 of us so we didn't all get our limit.......

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

I live just outside of Hondo, TX which is the leading edge of S. TX On a lease we were on , we jumped 6 coveys in about 200 acres without dogs. It was up a little from last year.

We hunted some public land further South of us yesterday and jumped 5 coveys of Bobs and 1 covey of Blues between 8:30 and noon. This was just walking them up with our labs ahead of us that know nothing about quail and there were a couple hundred hunters went through this place last weekend.

Quail numbers are good here, but it is due to the timely summer rains across the southern half of the state.

Doves, now that is a different story. They were spotty at best.

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Here's Saturday's blue quail take south of Odessa.....six hunters took 90 birds.....

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Same problem here in Georgia. From what we can tell, there's several problems. No cover left anymore, not much grain left in fields after farmers gather the crop, fireants, coyotes, hawks, owls, and other predators are taking a toll. One of the worst on the nest is armadillos.

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RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

well one of my best deer spots has lost a whole lot of quail it got hunted hard this year and last year i didnt hear or see as many birds this year i hope my turkey spot in adams county still has some ill find out when i go scouting in a couple weeks

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Here in FLA. also, the YOTE population is increasing rapidly. Many think
the migrants are bringing in Yote pups and then turning them loose after
they get bigger.

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

My family lives in KS. the last few years it went to no bobs.The house cat population got real high. Allso bobcats did the same. My dad and 3 trappers traped the crap out of the bob hunting spots. This made a very big difrants. they killed a good number of birds this last year.

They cought over 200 house cats in the last year of traping.That is a lot of bird killing going on.

RE: quail numbers dwindling
 

Ohio is aggressivly trying to bring back the bob white quail, through CRP, and other managment programs through various counties in Ohio. So hopefully we can get enough people with enough acrage to participate in these programs. I would hate to see such a magnificent bird dwindle any more that it already has.[:o]