Huh, CA quail were my guess. They must not be too tough to get established? not like bobs anyway?
Invasive or not, that one is tough when most of their gamebirds were imported, (phez, chukars, huns). I wouldn't mind tearing into them though, a lot of bird diversity around there.
And no, 2point, no bear for me. I had one run up a tree in front of me on day one and huff and snap jaws at me, but I didn't come all that way to blast one out of a tree with a 300 mag. Of course, then that was the only opportunity we got. I think we were just too early (?), game warden reported he didn't really start getting calls to check bears until a few days after leaving.