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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1200429" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>I hear Bobwhite Quail when I am on the farm. I have not encountered a covey. In the 1960s, Bobwhite Quail were abundant on everyone's farm. It was not difficult getting 6 coveys up in a 4 hour span. That was before fescue became the dominant vegetative cover. There was lots of diverse grasses and forbes before fescue. Lespedeza and Korean clover was abundant. Including all the other clovers. There were blackberry briar patches, snakes, rabbits, frogs, woodchucks, whip-poor-wills, night hawks, owls, etc. Landowners shot every hawk they could in those days because everyone had a bunch of chickens and a henhouse. Everyone had at least one milkcow. Some farmers who had boys in the family always kept a couple ewes.</p><p></p><p>In the 50s and 60s, I did not know what a rotary mower was. So pastures if they were cut at all, were cut with a sickle. Hollers were choked with shrubs, weeds and ground plants. Plenty of hay fields with seeding plants. There was all the essentials (1) diverse cover or messy cover as the article called it. (2) Diverse plants and forages many of which produced the right seeds to fill a quail's crop. (3) Weather seemed to have less extremes. (4) No rotary mowing on a regular basis to destroy nests and cut down seed heads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1200429, member: 17767"] I hear Bobwhite Quail when I am on the farm. I have not encountered a covey. In the 1960s, Bobwhite Quail were abundant on everyone's farm. It was not difficult getting 6 coveys up in a 4 hour span. That was before fescue became the dominant vegetative cover. There was lots of diverse grasses and forbes before fescue. Lespedeza and Korean clover was abundant. Including all the other clovers. There were blackberry briar patches, snakes, rabbits, frogs, woodchucks, whip-poor-wills, night hawks, owls, etc. Landowners shot every hawk they could in those days because everyone had a bunch of chickens and a henhouse. Everyone had at least one milkcow. Some farmers who had boys in the family always kept a couple ewes. In the 50s and 60s, I did not know what a rotary mower was. So pastures if they were cut at all, were cut with a sickle. Hollers were choked with shrubs, weeds and ground plants. Plenty of hay fields with seeding plants. There was all the essentials (1) diverse cover or messy cover as the article called it. (2) Diverse plants and forages many of which produced the right seeds to fill a quail's crop. (3) Weather seemed to have less extremes. (4) No rotary mowing on a regular basis to destroy nests and cut down seed heads. [/QUOTE]
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