Thread: Game bird diary for all

From an article in the magazine produced by the Brittany Club, Victoria, Australia, dated May 1988, the editor ran an article written by Durwood Hollis on the Western Quail of the USA...of the Cali he writes...'these birds are very gregarious, often mixing several family groups together in a 'super-covey' of immense proportions. California quail will hold for the hunter if they are well scattered at the initial flush. Preferring to run or flush well out of range, California quail can be difficult to hunt if conditions are not favourable'.

Hollis states 'Even though these spunky birds would just as soon run as fly, I still find hunting them a consummate challenge'. And so say all of us