Thread: Quail non Hunting

Quail hunting over a good dog is one of my favorite types of Upland Game / Wing shooting ,but just like ducks etc l still love & have always worked to improve their habitat & encourage them on my blocks,we have always set up our farm garden & the surrounds to encourage bird life,it is one of the reasons l was determined to get a minimum 20 hectares out of towns to settle on & as you know with your own block walks you are doing now the sights & sounds of the bird life make exercise a bit more interesting & enjoyable .

You would love Chukar Partridge ,they are real characters & when we lived in the remote Kimberly region of the Top End of Oz ,we had a convey living around us ,they do crazy little dances during the mating season & are fearless little buggers who like nothing better than taking long dust bath's while the dogs were forced to watch through the fly screens.

As with all these ground birds bloody cats do a huge amount of damage & over the years we spent in the Kimberly's you could see the drop off of numbers as feral cats became more prevalent .When l do retire l want to look at setting up some Chukar on our block to go along with the Quail .