Boy did I ever find a honey hole. Went for a drive yesterday and found an area with 4-5 foot tall sweetclover. several acres of this.
Pheasants were coming out of this to edges where it had been cut and along roads that were clean and the numbers were just amazing.
In this part of North Dakota sweetclover grew better than I have ever seen it, even Butte tops were in full yellow bloom. This brood rearing habitat did wonders for the birds. I wouldn't be surprised to see one of those 500 bird flushes from this area of clover.
Looked like a good number of hens so with a mild winter and everything else falling in place next year could be record setting for this area. (Modern era of course).
Pheasants were coming out of this to edges where it had been cut and along roads that were clean and the numbers were just amazing.
In this part of North Dakota sweetclover grew better than I have ever seen it, even Butte tops were in full yellow bloom. This brood rearing habitat did wonders for the birds. I wouldn't be surprised to see one of those 500 bird flushes from this area of clover.
Looked like a good number of hens so with a mild winter and everything else falling in place next year could be record setting for this area. (Modern era of course).