Bill- I am about at the end of my tolerance of your never ending negativity about the state of the birds. People like you that scream about the sky falling and do nothing about it are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Got it! No more sky is falling from me. We had lots fo birds last year on the driest year in 50 years. There is still hope.

I don't think Bill means to be negative. He's like a lot of guys...he just remembers how it used to be.

It was just a knee jerk response that any of us who have been hunting several years might say. I was looking at last years game surveys for Kansas yesterday. Here is the pdf file for the 2011 small game hunter activity survey.
http://www.kdwpt.state.ks.us/news/content/download/32138/230526/file/SGHSrpt2011.pdf
There are some graphs on there from 1957 to 2011. There is one thing in common for all small game hunting in Kansas. Other than a peak in the early 1980s (my good old days) for most game there has been a steady decline in harvest per hunter for all small game be it feather or fur.

Don't get me wrong on the selfish disappointment to two birds, I do understand the need. For those of us who do have access to the pockets that still have birds it is a long drive to hunt two birds a day. In the 2011-12 OK season I had two birds down in less than 15 minutes, but the drive is 6-7 hours.