Quoted: We sure have hijacked the sh*t out of this thread...., unintentually!!!
Sorry tucansam
Anyway...., the areas I bird hunt in are mostly public lands that have awesome nesting habitat, feed, water & escapement!! But over the years, since about the late 70's we have seen a steady decline in bird populations along with an increased number of predator kills that we have found. That combined with weather conditions that are not always not condusive to productive nesting & good hatches!! There is nothing we can do about the weather...., but we are doing our best to put a hurt on the predator population!! There is a pretty heavy kill by hawks as well, but as far as I know they are protected in Washington.
Some of our best upland hunting areas are controled by the "Federal" Wildlife (not State, but Feds) and are closed to Predator hunting. Most of these areas have awesome upland habitat but are over run with Coyotes & Bobcats!! I have tried to get the Feds to have a "Predator control" hunt in these areas but they refuse to allow it. Needless to say we now have several locations just outside the perimeters of these "Closed" areas and they have turned out to be very productive for calling in Predators to their demise!!
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Nice work!
Keep it up.
BTW, hawks are Federally protected. I used to live in Kansas, and there were so many days when upland hunting that it would have been so easy to kill two or three hawks per day.....