OK, it's a pheasant forum so think of them as little gray pheasants.
I made my first scouting trip in preparation for opening day and found very few of them and some bad info on the web about areas. A site that speaks with authority says that safflower and sunflower food plots were planted on the Nelson Slough Wildlife Area but I never saw any. I didn't walk all of it but the site said there were a bunch of them so I'd like to think I would have found at least one. Also the levee road is closed at Sacramento Ave so unless you want to walk from there to the area(over a mile) you have to go to the other access near the bridge. That one goes through the bridge construction site so that may be exciting.
They have planted a lot of sunflower in the Knights Landing-Tisdale basin but little has been harvested. I did find about 40 acres of a 160 acre field that had been cut that had perfect dove requirements around it... water, gravel, and roost trees. No birds at all flew into it. What birds I saw were associated with walnut groves with no potential for hunting.
Anybody seeing anything yet?
I made my first scouting trip in preparation for opening day and found very few of them and some bad info on the web about areas. A site that speaks with authority says that safflower and sunflower food plots were planted on the Nelson Slough Wildlife Area but I never saw any. I didn't walk all of it but the site said there were a bunch of them so I'd like to think I would have found at least one. Also the levee road is closed at Sacramento Ave so unless you want to walk from there to the area(over a mile) you have to go to the other access near the bridge. That one goes through the bridge construction site so that may be exciting.
They have planted a lot of sunflower in the Knights Landing-Tisdale basin but little has been harvested. I did find about 40 acres of a 160 acre field that had been cut that had perfect dove requirements around it... water, gravel, and roost trees. No birds at all flew into it. What birds I saw were associated with walnut groves with no potential for hunting.
Anybody seeing anything yet?