Mr H
Banana'd
It has been a while since I have seen any around here. I hit the very last one with my car.
It has been a while since I have seen any around here. I hit the very last one with my car.
I was told by Pheasants Forever that there is something in the Maryland soil that keeps the egg shells from hardening so you don't have a high enough survival rate to survive.
That was back in the '80's.
John
I was told by Pheasants Forever that there is something in the Maryland soil that keeps the egg shells from hardening so you don't have a high enough survival rate to survive.
That was back in the '80's.
John
Nice find!
I used to see them all the time on the outskirts of Columbia on Guilford near WR Grace, long before the Rt 32 extension was built. I think there was an old game reserve there at the time.
Yep. I grew up in Illinois and pheasants used to be all over the place. I even knew one family that illegally hunted them within the Chicago city limits. But modern farming really hurt the overall population. Shame. Those are my favorite animals to hunt. I'd take hunting ring necks over deer hunting any day.The change in farming technology has killed more pheasants.
The old style bar cutters would allow the nesting pheasants to jump over them. Combines, tend to suck them up
Our 330 acre farm in Queen Anne's County was used to hunt released birds on before we bought it. Thousands and thousands of birds released on it and haven't seen one pheasant or quail on it. We have 300 foot CRP (grassland) bordering all the planted fields too that should be perfect habitat.