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First flight of Sand Hill Cranes I've seen so far passed over the house heading North today. It'll be a steady stream of flocks soon because we seem to be on a large segment of birds flight path.

It's fall. First small flock of a couple family groups of Sandhill Cranes flew over the house here in Auburn today heading for the valley and the Cosumnes River Preserve. I see it's two days later than last year.

First flight of Sandhills flew South over our house today which is a regular check point for both directions of their migration.

Constant flight of Sandhill Cranes heading NNE over the house. Sure sign it's spring...as far as they're concerned.

This is an old post but just saw it. There are only three cities in Montana that meet your requirement of 50k population size. Great Falls...59K, Missoula...71K, Billings...110K. Because of the population your hope to find good hunting within 40 minutes drive is a very long shot. Billings is an...

A huge flock of Sandhill Cranes went over us here in Auburn heading NE toward Montana. I think the weather has them fooled along with the Almond trees.

The first flock of Sandhill Cranes went over the house here in Auburn 4 days ago. Temps are dropping and everything is going to happen all at the same time.

At 6:15 this evening the first flight of Sandhill Cranes flew over our house headed SW to what looked like The Cosumnes River Preserve. Summer's over no matter what that lying temp gauge may say.

For those of you planning to hunt the north valley, it has had some good rains in the last two days. That will result in gumbo conditions and mud measured in pounds stuck to your boots. Bring towels. Lots of towels you don't mind getting muddy.

I always use the return of the Sandhill Cranes as my indicator that summer is over and fall is here. That has always happened by mid Oct in years past but so far this year, no cranes have flown over the house. I guess they've changed their flight pattern a little bit or there hasn't been enough...

This year is an unusual one because it hasn't been "normal" for so long. Living in the foothills, when the Sandhill Cranes show up in Oct. that's the start of fall for me and when they fly north in Feb that's the start of spring. No cranes this year but a mature Bald Eagle along with an immature...

Gov. Brown signed a law that limits the number of shells you can "import" into the state to 50 rounds. It's my understanding that even if you take the shells out of the state yourself you can't bring more than 50back in. Not a deal for big game i'd guess but for bird hunters it could be. I've...

I just heard from a friend who had to contact the DFW office in Glasgow and was told by the person there it's been raining for two weeks and the roads are impossible gumbo now. The weather service has a flood warning for the north central part of the state through Thursday. It's snowing in Malta...

I'm getting my stuff together to go hunting and fishing again in MT. I looked through my past hunt's descriptions and found a good indicator of how quickly things have changed in the NE corner of the state. In 2013 I hunted very small and relatively remote BMAs near the NoDak border. One was...

All dogs can have this disorder which is genetically passed to pups from their parents. It is rapidly progressive and results in total blindness but doesn't manifest itself until later in life. My almost 9 year old Lab has it and if it progresses as usual will be totally blind within one year...

Last night, in my dreams, I drove and boated all over the Sacramento Valley. Everywhere. I didn't see or hear a single pheasant. Now they don't even exist in my dreams.

It seems early and maybe the warm weather has fooled them but the first flights of Sandhill Cranes heading NE across the Sierras passed the house yesterday. Best indicator of the season change I know of. Good luck to them.

You may have seen this or I may even have posted this before but the DFW site has pheasant harvest numbers from the 96 season to the 2010 season when they stopped including pheasant take in their posted take listings. You can go back and see how many birds were killed on the refuges and how much...

This gives an idea of the fluctuation and steady descent into the tank for pheasant hunting in Calif. Note that the numbers for 2014 may include club birds in the wild bird count so... https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Upland-Game-Birds#22503332-harvest-data

Others would have already found this but not given a link. Here's upland harvest data for 2014 and a link to info back into the 1940s so you can see how good it used to be and how many hunters there were. Something to do when you're not hunting...