New Jersey's Wild Pheasant

Nice pictures. The area looks like it would hold birds. Nice to hear the woodcock are around. Who needs a dog when you can spy those WC.
 
Thanks for the pictures. The key words here are, an abundant of undisturbed nesting cover. For years the pheasant management literature promoted the combination of grain crops and cover for wild pheasants to strive.

But it appears that an abundance of undisturbed nesting cover and an tons of fat juice summer time insects of the baby pheasants to eat, should move to the top of the list for wild pheasants to multiply.

Once the baby pheasants hatch and survive the summer and early fall, they will figure out how to survive the winter. But the first priority is to get them hatched.
 
"Undisturbed Nesting Cover"
Without it, for pheasants You have about nothing.
 




Went out today to the same spot in NJ, flushed a big beautiful rooster in this spot, thought I had a picture but no luck.


This place is infested with deer, also saw more woodcock, a turkey and found a rare wood turtle shell.


This is not going to help the pheasants...saw two red fox leaving this den.


 
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bauerline said:
Looks like a nice area. Is this close to your pheasant camp?
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Nah, Pheasant Camp is 3 1/2 hours away, this is very close to home though. There is no hunting allowed and hasn't been for some time. It's an old land fill "dump" that they had to cap and fill over. The amount of wildlife is incredible.
This is not the area with the "Green" pheasants but it's only maybe 10 miles away. These birds look more like your traditional Ringneck.

Thinking about using an electronic caller to help get pictures...or maybe a pointing dog!:rolleyes::D
 
This is a great thread! :10sign: I love the reports and pictures, please keep them coming. I have seen pheasants along the NJ Turnpike plenty of times, never knew if they were wild or not.
 
Thank You. Depending on what area of the NJ Turnpike you saw those birds at, they could very well be wild birds. There is more than one location where wild birds are present.
 
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