Quail numbers quadrupled with habitat management

[BenA]

Very interesting and promising article on an area not that big.

Restoration Efforts Help Quadruple Quail Population in Nanticoke River Wildlife Management Area

news.maryland.gov

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Saw one today and heard another 2-3.
You have any on your place?

 

[BenA]

I jumped about 4 on my first trip looking at the place, but nothing since. I'm leaning towards a faster burn rotation. I just have to work out the logistics of permanent firebreaks.

 

[Bill]

I’ve posted this before. No quail on my place when I bought it. None for several years. Then one here and there. Today I hear the Bob White calls all day long everywhere. I’m not sure which improvements helped the most but I suspect just letting some fields go fallow and adding native grass, and leaving beans, and leaving lots of ragweed. Edge feathering and cutting clear cuts. But not sure which one is better than the other.

 

[SwampCat]

I’ve posted this before. No quail on my place when I bought it. None for several years. Then one here and there. Today I hear the Bob White calls all day long everywhere. I’m not sure which improvements helped the most but I suspect just letting some fields go fallow and adding native grass, and leaving beans, and leaving lots of ragweed. Edge feathering and cutting clear cuts. But not sure which one is better than the other.

All if it, in one place

 

[cbw]

So excited--I bumped my first quail on our farm! When I was growing up, we had quail and pheasant by the droves. One of my goals when we took possession in 2020 was to bring the quail back (we already had a few pheasants). We installed 8 acres of QuailSafe CRP just last year. And yesterday, when I was looking over our summer foodplots, I bumped our first quail. It was right on the edge of the CRP. The image below is where it was dusting itself before I bumped it.

 

[Turkey Creek]

It has been a exciting but frustrating year here. On the MIL's place we have seen several quail and I hear them whistling off and on all day. However, I have yet to see any chicks. What I thought would also be a good turkey Spring has been a bust. My hens have all but disappeared on trail camera and I don't see many when driving the backroads. As of yet I have not seen a turkey brood. We did have quite a bit of rain this Spring, not sure if that took out a lot of nests.

 

[buckdeer1]

I have seen more this year than in the last 10 together,had 7 or 8 little ones the other morning

 

[KY wild]

I heard a whistle on my place this week, rare event. I love it