SDinWI
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Wife and I just started our road trip out west and passed through southern MN to eastern SD today. I had my eyes peeled for pheasants along the route. From southeastern to southwestern MN, I counted 7. Pretty impressive, I thought, as long tails are pretty few and far between on my WI highway drives.
We had some time to kill before we wanted to settle into our SD hotel, so we decided to take a country drive for a bit. I quickly looked up some public lands in eastern SD. Gravel roads with plenty of ditch mostly around wetlands and ag. We made it a mission to see how much birds we could spy. And spy we did. We counted 49 in about our hour side mission. 95% roosters which makes sense with the nesting season in full swing. No broods. But holy cow, I wasn’t expecting that #. My username is a play on my land in WI and what I’m hoping to get the habitat to be (a slice of SD in WI).
Attaching a pic of one rooster in town. Seems he’s one with the locals.
Anyway, I’m jealous and amazed and happy you all get to experience a great wild pheasant population. And no, I didn’t spot any holes in their beaks (A5).![Winking face :wink: 😉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
![IMG_5015.jpeg IMG_5015.jpeg](https://forum.ultimatepheasanthunting.com/data/attachments/8/8243-f4ed7284644808b03a4f656b0003dce0.jpg)
We had some time to kill before we wanted to settle into our SD hotel, so we decided to take a country drive for a bit. I quickly looked up some public lands in eastern SD. Gravel roads with plenty of ditch mostly around wetlands and ag. We made it a mission to see how much birds we could spy. And spy we did. We counted 49 in about our hour side mission. 95% roosters which makes sense with the nesting season in full swing. No broods. But holy cow, I wasn’t expecting that #. My username is a play on my land in WI and what I’m hoping to get the habitat to be (a slice of SD in WI).
Attaching a pic of one rooster in town. Seems he’s one with the locals.
Anyway, I’m jealous and amazed and happy you all get to experience a great wild pheasant population. And no, I didn’t spot any holes in their beaks (A5).
![Winking face :wink: 😉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
![IMG_5015.jpeg IMG_5015.jpeg](https://forum.ultimatepheasanthunting.com/data/attachments/8/8243-f4ed7284644808b03a4f656b0003dce0.jpg)
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