Got back from a couple days of mixed hunting thanks to dove/quail overlapping!! The quail seem a little above average where we were SW of Spur. We have no dogs and hunted about 700 acres where maybe 400 holds quail. We found about 5 covies a day averaging 20 birds driving or walking around roads and field borders so might have been more in the brush. Spent about 2 to 3 hours a day at it so it was pretty productive for no dogs or feeding them. Ended up with 19 quial for 2 of us. Most of the covies had chicks with them. One had 15 chicks in it!

I don't know how dogs can work in the grass burrs though. They are horrible in places. My fingers tips are raw from getting them off. Use pliers!

We drove around some other ranches scouting for predator calling spots and saw zero birds so they are concentrated to traditional areas that hold birds. Also got 17 dove.

Duckman - How about turkey sightings?

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Got back from a couple days of mixed hunting thanks to dove/quail overlapping!! The quail seem a little above average where we were SW of Spur. We have no dogs and hunted about 700 acres where maybe 400 holds quail. We found about 5 covies a day averaging 20 birds driving or walking around roads and field borders so might have been more in the brush. Spent about 2 to 3 hours a day at it so it was pretty productive for no dogs or feeding them. Ended up with 19 quial for 2 of us. Most of the covies had chicks with them. One had 15 chicks in it!

I don't know how dogs can work in the grass burrs though. They are horrible in places. My fingers tips are raw from getting them off. Use pliers!

We drove around some other ranches scouting for predator calling spots and saw zero birds so they are concentrated to traditional areas that hold birds. Also got 17 dove.

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I was in Kent county a few months ago and saw several hundred the turkey population is huge in that area. and the quail is really good this year.

+1 on all the chicks I couldn't believe how many I saw when I was there. it will be a great year for quail for sure.

What Seth said +1. The place I was is managed for turkey actually. They sublease the deer just to keep all the bird hunting which they have built and invested much time and energy into. They have cement tanks with water flowing in year round for the birds and turkey feeders.

The turkeys are out of control and were as common as squirrels in Dallas. I have a picture of a field with about 125 to 150 turkeys in it I will post. My friend got on the predator chair to take picture and there was another 75 to 100 in the field on the other side of the road. All going to a single roost. They took their turn going to roost one by one. Pretty funny to watch them go single file and fly across the road. There were turkeys everywhere though through out the day. My buddies place borders the best roost though in the north part of the county so that helps. We went to a couple other ranches and didn't see a single turkey though which weren't too far away but they are not managed for wildlife at all, just cows and oil. When the place that holds the roost trees (maybe 100 acres at less than $400 an acre from what we know....) was sold this past year my friends dad contacted the new people asap to talk to them about the roost. They agreed it needed to be protected. I really wish we would have known it was for sale though but they might have just made an blind offer to the owner who bit. They thought someone might have shot into it earlier when they stopped roosting there but anything could have moved them off a bit including predators or just farm traffic but they are back.

There were bachlelor groups and hen groups all over the place though. I plan to go in Nov. next year and give up dove for turkeys so we can take some hens out.

I'm getting similar reports from my landowner up Hall County where I will be turkey hunting on April 4...Cant wait!!

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What Seth said +1. The place I was is managed for turkey actually. They sublease the deer just to keep all the bird hunting which they have built and invested much time and energy into. They have cement tanks with water flowing in year round for the birds and turkey feeders.

The turkeys are out of control and were as common as squirrels in Dallas. I have a picture of a field with about 125 to 150 turkeys in it I will post. My friend got on the predator chair to take picture and there was another 75 to 100 in the field on the other side of the road. All going to a single roost. They took their turn going to roost one by one. Pretty funny to watch them go single file and fly across the road. There were turkeys everywhere though through out the day. My buddies place borders the best roost though in the north part of the county so that helps. We went to a couple other ranches and didn't see a single turkey though which weren't too far away but they are not managed for wildlife at all, just cows and oil. When the place that holds the roost trees (maybe 100 acres at less than $400 an acre from what we know....) was sold this past year my friends dad contacted the new people asap to talk to them about the roost. They agreed it needed to be protected. I really wish we would have known it was for sale though but they might have just made an blind offer to the owner who bit. They thought someone might have shot into it earlier when they stopped roosting there but anything could have moved them off a bit including predators or just farm traffic but they are back.

There were bachlelor groups and hen groups all over the place though. I plan to go in Nov. next year and give up dove for turkeys so we can take some hens out.

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sounds like good news...just a mixed bag i suppose, depends on where you are.