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bigbucks8
Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: Rochester WA.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: Bird population down.... |
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Just got back from a weekend youth hunt in eastern washington......though i limited on pheasants each day and i got 1 chukar...the population is down this year bad......My cousin and i were talking about it and came to the conclusion that due toa wet spring there was a bad and lat hatch for upland birds in paticular....
Spacifically were we hunt in the southeast region of wahington state.......I was wondering if anyone else has seen a decrease in the population in there area also.... maybe even a different cause than what i thought...thanks for your time....
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redrider
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
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Location: NE Kansas
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Our quail and pheasant pop. here declined drastically about a decade ago. They both seem to be coming back now. Especially the quail. |
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Don Fischer
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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Location: Antelope, Ore
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| We got quail everywhere this year. Phesants, Chukars and Huns I haven't seen a lot of. |
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jigman
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, my friends and I hunt the SE Washington area exclusively and noticed all birds are wayyyy down. Pheasants, chukar, quail and huns. |
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WAcoyotehunter
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
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Location: Washington
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| Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: quail # |
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| I agree that we have lost some birds. The chukars seem to be doing well, but the quail. huns, and pheasants are down. |
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bigbucks8
Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: Rochester WA.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yea.. since i never reposted after that initial weekend hunt, and WAcoyotehunter brought this thread up from the dead...i'll give an update of our success in SW washington. That youth weekend i limited out both days on pheasants, and did get 1 chuckar... i went back two more times 1 time before Pheasants was open.. that was deer opener. We saw more phasants thatn youth weekend, but just not as many as normal.. and i went again the last open weekend of pheasants in the snow!!!! it was awesome and we were seeing quite a few birds... we also saw and got quail.. Initially in October during youth i was concerned, but by that last weekend i wasn't concerned because we got out limits and saw plenty more birds... Though as Redrider said about 10 years ago in the 90's the bird populations drastically fell and have slowly been climbing from there...
Here is a pic from youth weekend From left to right.. Uncle. Me(holding my first double of the year!!) my lil cousin(standing) and my older cousin(partner in crime)
The two dogs are Buck our yellow lab, and Tasha the black lab with my older cousin..(HARD TO SEE)
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WAcoyotehunter
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
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Location: Washington
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: eastern washington |
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| Echo the wiz kid. border collies can do anything! She picked this up after hunting with a friends labs. These dogs NEED a job to keep from going crazy. Instead of herding sheep, her job is hunting. |
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