Rooster in Wamego

kansasbrittany

kansasbrittany

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I know this isn't the first time something like this has happened, but it is the first time I've witnessed such a thing.

I was in Wamego the other day and saw a rooster in someone's back yard. The house sits right on main street, and right by the Kaw River, but he would've had to travel past several residences to get where he was, no matter which way he came from. A lady I was with took a picture w/ her cell phone to show her husband, but I don't have the pic to share. Apparently the ole' boy was running along the river and found himself in the middle of town. I searched for pheasant pens at all of the houses in the vacinity but found none.

Do you think he got lost? Could he have been looking for a hen or a certain type of food?

I have a curious mind. I don't see many roosters around Wamego either. I'd just love to know what inspired him to take a stroll through town.
 
I grew up in manhattan and have shot some roosters around wamego. But never heard of one strollilng into town, seems awful brave to me! lol. I guarantee that you wont see him in town come november. lol
Does everyone notice or is is just me, you see roosters, turkeys, deer etc, all the time when it's not season, come opening day you dont see near as many??
For example, I have had to stop in the middle of the road to let turkeys pass, probaly 30 of them, with a few good toms. Went out the next morning in that area pretty damn excited, called for 1.5 hrs and nothing. Went home, changed drove back down to see a friend, and saw them again about 100 yrs from where i was setup that morning. I guess you have to be smarter than the game you are hunting and I'm starting to wonder how smart a hunter i really am.
But that being said, Ill say this....worst day hunting is better than the best day working!!!! so i really cant complain!
 
Truly wild pheasants travel, live and follow natural water corridors like creeks, gullies and rivers. I was stationed at Fort Riley years ago and we would flush pheasants all over the post frequently near water.
Wamego is only 25 or 30 miles eastward along the Kansas river, from Fort Riley.

I have a co-worker who lives in Wichita, when we get together at company meetings we talk about pheasants. He tells me that he frequently notices pheasants around Wichita along the Arkansas river.
Truly wild pheasants (not pen raised) are continuing to expand southward along the Arkansas river down into Oklahoma. Wild pheasants are noticed in Kay and Osage counties Oklahoma. And there also reports of pheasants along the Arkansas river around Lake Keystone.
Truly wild pheasants don't always obey man-made precepts of what is or what is not good pheasant habitat.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I think if I were a wild pheasant my survival instincts would keep me out of a place that smells, looks, and sounds completely different than the meadow or wheat feild I was born in. The dogs barking and the sound of cars and kids should spook them. Me shutting a truck door at a CRP patch will send hundreds of them to the next county.....
 
There used to be a flock of turkeys in the middle of Great Bend, KS. It was about half a mile inside of town in a housing community surrounding a small lake. that was about 2 years ago and I haven't heard or seen them since a couple summers ago but I did see a single hen turkey a block away from the hospital about 2 weeks ago in the front yard of a home. Kinda crazy seeing them in the middle of town like that.
 
We used to have a hen turkey that roosted in the trees out front of our fraternity when I was a student at KSU. She roosted there every night of the summer and wandered around the yard in the morning and evening. She moved on once school started back up in the Fall and there was more "activity" at night.:cheers:

A couple months ago I had to wait for three deer to cross the intersection of 5th and Poyntz. It was getting close to sunrise, and they were heading towards Bluemont instead of back towards the river.

I agree with Preston1. The wildlife doesn't always read the "city limits" sign. They just go where the food is.:D
 
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