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Post by davep on Jul 21, 2013 4:41:47 GMT -5
Anyone seeing many poults this year?
I haven't seen many, one hen w/7 a couple months ago, and a few with 3-5.
Had one here late yesterday evening, a hen with ONE, that was MAYBE 2 weeks old: tiny thing. Smallest I've ever seen this late in the year. Must've lost her first couple clutches.
I know wet springs are hard on them.
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Post by hunter on Jul 21, 2013 14:04:23 GMT -5
I saw three hens yesterday with about 15 poults less than a 1/4 mile from house in the Shenandoah mountains. Never seen that many poults near my house and hope the predators around here don't get to many of them.
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Post by Jbird on Jul 22, 2013 10:36:11 GMT -5
I saw three hens yesterday with about 15 poults less than a 1/4 mile from house in the Shenandoah mountains. Never seen that many poults near my house and hope the predators around here don't get to many of them. I have 2 hens with 4 at the house that i see almost every morning...they have grown fast! I saw 2 hens with a combined 15 about a week ago. They were right about 8"-10" tall and they were flying like quail. It was pretty cool to see. Once i start running trail cams for deer in the next week or two i will start to see how they made out this season. |
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Post by osprey on Jul 22, 2013 15:25:16 GMT -5
I hadn't seen any until a few weeks ago, think the heavy rains and cold weather got the early nests and young. Had three hens with 15 here at the house two weeks ago, all about 1/3rd grown. Saw 4 hens with 6 young, all different sizes, down in southern DorCo a week before that. Grass is so tall it's hard to see how many made it through the deluges.
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Post by osprey on Aug 15, 2013 10:43:17 GMT -5
Not poults, but I saw 7 big fat longbeards cross the road coming out of my woods today! Bastards were probably in my field scratching up all the forage oats I planted last week.  |
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