Hey Bob White! Bob White!

[53caddy]

What if you've been doing that for 20 years,
and the quail population continues to trend downward?
That has been my experience on a particularly large tract of land.

Call the state wildlife biologist at quail forever...

 

[7mm08]

More quail on my places this summer than we have had in 3 decades. Im guessing thats a result of our coyote eradication plan.

Now you done it!!!! " you can't kill enough to make difference ".

Good for you, and can I send you ammo?

 

[Darkthirty II]

The issue with quail is you have to have quail present in order to get more quail. Whereas with deer/turkeys, it s more of a "if you build it they will come" approach.

 

[tellico4x4]

Got a new pair at a clover plot I've never seen or heard them at. Saw them yesterday! Top sowed wheat into it last fall due to drought. Mowed wheat a few weeks ago & they were feeding on seed on the ground.

One thing that I don't understand is that our birds are the big ole timey Bob White & not the small "Mexican Quail" we had in the 70's & 80's. Back then you couldn't find a Bob White.

 

[MickThompson]

The issue with quail is you have to have quail present in order to get more quail. Whereas with deer/turkeys, it s more of a "if you build it they will come" approach.

If you never built it you won't ever know they were there

 

[Darkthirty II]

If you never built it you won't ever know they were there

I enrolled my property in the short leaf pine initiative and planted hundreds of native shrubs in low land areas. It's not a big piece of property but would be plenty to help support some wild birds. What sucks is I'm only about 2-1/2 miles from Seven islands State birding park and they have a fairly strong bobwhite population there. I wish they'd fly down the river and spread out. Haha.

 

[MickThompson]

I enrolled my property in the short leaf pine initiative and planted hundreds of native shrubs in low land areas. It's not a big piece of property but would be plenty to help support some wild birds. What sucks is I'm only about 2-1/2 miles from Seven islands State birding park and they have a fairly strong bobwhite population there. I wish they'd fly down the river and spread out. Haha.

2.5 miles of nothing is a lot for a Bob to cover. I used to live in Seymour and fish out of that ramp. I don't recall much of anything off 7 islands that would halfway pass for habitat.

 

[Darkthirty II]

2.5 miles of nothing is a lot for a Bob to cover. I used to live in Seymour and fish out of that ramp. I don't recall much of anything off 7 islands that would halfway pass for habitat.

There's great cover there now. They have a great prescribed fire plan and that alone is enough to make a bob happy.

 

[MickThompson]

There's great cover there now. They have a great prescribed fire plan and that alone is enough to make a bob happy.

I'm talking about everything in between you and them