More from Missouri, and an odd question.

[Stoneface]

Headed back out to out to our sweet spot yesterday and walked two fencerows I'd targeted before getting there. Walked the first one twice as far as usual and right at the end of it we flushed what I'm guess was two coveys right next to each other. They were about ten yards apart and the two groups flushed in their respective groups. Huge numbers total. About thirty birds in all. Flushed right out into a field, but must have high-tailed it or something because we couldn't find anything. It was hard to mark them down for the trees that separated us, but I thought we'd have picked up a few singles for sure.

Anyhow, after finishing up the second stint, about twenty yards from the pickup I walk up a single bird out of some thin scrub. At first I thought it was a Woodcock or dove, but then about seven more flushed up and flew off after the first. I would have thought quail, but they looked a little bigger and the had a lot of white on their tail fan. Does anybody have any idea what they were? They flew a long ways off and higher than I would expect quail to. I would have dropped one, but my gun was already unloaded.

[nhachman]

Hunted up here in NW Mo, Harrison and Davies counties, on Saturday. Walked from 7am until 1pm and didn't see a single bird. Hunted both public and private land. All I have to show for it is a vet bill to get some staples where my dog ran through barb wire and sliced her shoulder open. Going to try again this weekend on another CA.

[Cajun Casey]

Headed back out to out to our sweet spot yesterday and walked two fencerows I'd targeted before getting there. Walked the first one twice as far as usual and right at the end of it we flushed what I'm guess was two coveys right next to each other. They were about ten yards apart and the two groups flushed in their respective groups. Huge numbers total. About thirty birds in all. Flushed right out into a field, but must have high-tailed it or something because we couldn't find anything. It was hard to mark them down for the trees that separated us, but I thought we'd have picked up a few singles for sure.

Anyhow, after finishing up the second stint, about twenty yards from the pickup I walk up a single bird out of some thin scrub. At first I thought it was a Woodcock or dove, but then about seven more flushed up and flew off after the first. I would have thought quail, but they looked a little bigger and the had a lot of white on their tail fan. Does anybody have any idea what they were? They flew a long ways off and higher than I would expect quail to. I would have dropped one, but my gun was already unloaded.

Meadowlarks. Shoot one and it'll be the last thing you shoot with a license if you get caught.

[AZ Brittany Guy]

Headed back out to out to our sweet spot yesterday and walked two fencerows I'd targeted before getting there. Walked the first one twice as far as usual and right at the end of it we flushed what I'm guess was two coveys right next to each other. They were about ten yards apart and the two groups flushed in their respective groups. Huge numbers total. About thirty birds in all. Flushed right out into a field, but must have high-tailed it or something because we couldn't find anything. It was hard to mark them down for the trees that separated us, but I thought we'd have picked up a few singles for sure.

Anyhow, after finishing up the second stint, about twenty yards from the pickup I walk up a single bird out of some thin scrub. At first I thought it was a Woodcock or dove, but then about seven more flushed up and flew off after the first. I would have thought quail, but they looked a little bigger and the had a lot of white on their tail fan. Does anybody have any idea what they were? They flew a long ways off and higher than I would expect quail to. I would have dropped one, but my gun was already unloaded.

Meadow Larks. They can fool us be never fool our dogs

[Stoneface]

I don't think it was a Meadlowlark. I got a pretty good look at them and didn't see any color on them and, if anything, they were bigger than quail. I think it may have been Kildeer?

[brad27]

I don't think it was a Meadlowlark. I got a pretty good look at them and didn't see any color on them and, if anything, they were bigger than quail. I think it may have been Kildeer?

Nope. Did it make a sound when it left? Besides, killdeer look like, well, killdeer. I'm guessing meadow lark.

[Cajun Casey]

I don't think it was a Meadlowlark. I got a pretty good look at them and didn't see any color on them and, if anything, they were bigger than quail. I think it may have been Kildeer?

Killdeer are shorebirds. They usually give a distinctive call on flight from which they get their name. You might want to brush up on your nongame species.