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No question. From talking with folks in the DNR who do the surveys, it does sound like they had several routes along poor habitat that usually prodcue just a few bird sightings that produced multiples of that this year.

Anecdotally between eastern iowa and NW IA, I have not really been seeing any more birds than any time the past 5 years either out driving or running the dogs. I hope they are right, but I'm not convinced yet. I think it will be a good year regardless, but I don't think it is as good as the DNR...

Would recommend hunting the public ground during the week and save your private access for Saturday/Sunday. There are birds around that area for sure.

Yes more rain here today as well. I was encouraged to get this picture yesterday morning on my trail camera along one of the firebreaks.

Similar with rain here on this side of the State. I am hopeful that the bulk of the broods hatched without issue in June - as the weather was near perfect at that time.

I really wish PF would have included pictures in that link as well for chick ages.

In my experience it seems the dog "knows" when they need to grip harder or not.

Glad to hear. I was mowing our clover/alfalfa firebreaks last week and kicked up a hen very close to me - got out and could hear some very small chicks (could not fly yet). Needless to say, I left that area unmowed.

I will plan on it!!

It would be a sight to see the entirety of each of your farms in CRP!

Any idea why there are far fewer pheasants at your one farm vs. the other? I assume just not as many acres of habitat?

Beautiful!

Let us know how the food plots look!

Any brood reports out there in Iowa? I saw my first brood at our farm in Eastern Iowa a week ago today when I was spraying our food plots - got out to pull the booms back in and a hen jumped up about 5 foot away from me in our clover fire break, walked over there and a handful of 3-4 day old...

I think what you've got there is phenomenal. The structure is perfect IMO.

Looks awesome!

From the sounds of it, there is probably one thing our farm will have better than yours this year, and that is the food plots. Those look great. Have not seen many birds around to use them - hopefully they are out there!

In Iowa's case - it is pretty simple. Where there is habitat, and quite a bit of it, the birds flourish. Where it is very isolated and not much habitat, the birds are harder to find, but still around. Even with the ups and downs of weather, etc., the places that have high-quality habitat have a...

You are definintely the first I have heard having these issues. I don't think I've seen any PF articles explaining how to keep all the pheasants from eating all of your seed before it germinates..

That is amazing - good problem to have I suppose. I would be happy to see just one pheasant digging in our food plots!