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    Default Quail birds.....

    Are everywhere!
    We've seen 8 coveys of chicks in the past week!
    Going to be a great year for Sir Bob around these parts.
    \"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE

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    Great to hear Scott!

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    Same here, been seeing alot of them on several properties!

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    awesome!
    With all the work you are doing, you deserve a strong population.

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    Was talking with someone else about that the other day. Seems like they had a great hatch this year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uga_dawg View Post
    Was talking with someone else about that the other day. Seems like they had a great hatch this year.
    To hear the folks around here talk, even the fish drowned after all that rain this fall/winter/spring.
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    I've heard plenty in the upstate also.
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    Told ya that fermented onion concoction will help them out!!!!

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    Maybe they are eating the turkeys?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stripa Swipa View Post
    Maybe they are eating the turkeys?
    Just the slow ones.

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    They've been waking me up every morning for weeks now. I recall hearing some for the first time last year where I now live. I don't want to jinx it and say they're making a comeback.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wob View Post
    They've been waking me up every morning for weeks now. I recall hearing some for the first time last year where I now live. I don't want to jinx it and say they're making a comeback.
    Might just be my favorite noise in all of nature.

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    I also heard and saw a covey at my place yesterday. Very encouraging!

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    We have been noticing the same thing, can hear two different coveys around my yard. Buddy showed me a video from his farm the other day with a hen with 18 chicks in tow. Also noticing less coyotes too. Been some trapping going on but not too much. A theory I heard the other day was heart worms in coyotes, who knows if there is any basis but it sounds good to me.
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    Saw several this past weekend in SW GA. On every part of the property I visited.
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    Have dog, will travel.

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    Seeing some here as well.

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    I've never heard quail like I have this year.

    They are in my backyard and on properties from Creston to Summerton.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    I've been marking and cruising timber on a contract for the USFS in the FMNF and have heard them the last couple mornings
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    Awesome. I heard one last time I was in Hampton Co. a few weeks ago.
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