I haven’t seen a live pheasant in the wild since I was a kid. Haven’t gone looking for them though.Attachment 42601
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I haven’t seen a live pheasant in the wild since I was a kid. Haven’t gone looking for them though.Attachment 42601
They sure are a beautiful bird !!
Where was that? I seem to remember that you hunt in the Marlborough forest - was it near there? I'm not asking because I want to go shoot it, but because I've now heard of a few sightings of unusual game birds in the general area.
that a sight you don't see to often any more. I think I have seen them twice in about 12 years. it is a shame we lost almost all the wild ones.
I saw a pair near Metcalfe a few years ago. Nice looking birds for sure.
Yes, they are beauty for sure! Thanks for posting
Nice to see but who's to say its wild. Could of been an escape or someone let it go. Either way still nice to see
This was on my way to the forest from Kemptville. Just on the side of the road. Right beside an area that had been clearcut so maybe looking for new territory.
I saw a pair of sandhill cranes two years ago in a cut corn field in the spring about 10 minutes away ( Burritts Rapids ) from where I saw the pheasant.
Yes the 'Wild' pheasants are in the Kemptville Area...I've seen them a few times out while Tukey hunting in my area. The first time I saw them I thought they were from a local farm but no..they're a Wild game bird.
The neighbour at the property I hunt (between North Gower and Smiths Falls) mentioned to me that there were two Bobwhite Quails in front of his blind a couple of times last week while deer hunting. He sent me a picture, and while it's blurry, they definitely look like quails. This is less than 15 km from the Marlborough forest.
They are all released birds, it is actually surprising that any of them make it but some do.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
I had one scare the crap out me while out bow hunting deer down in SW Ontario, in an area without a normal released hunt.
Bobwhite quail are native to the area, but there was also birds released for the purpose of hunting back a long time ago now, in WMU 65. They stopped allowing hunting of Northern Bobwhites a few years back now, so they may be expanding from the native or released birds that never were shot. Either that or they escaped or were released from a farm.Quote:
Originally Posted by rf2
Drifting off topic a bit but I used to train my GSP by releasing quails in a field of WMU 65 about 35 years ago. I had a call back cage setup but for various reasons the odd one would not always return. So, small populations have been established over the years.
Horseshoe valley 1996ish. In a ditch as I drove by I saw a Pheasant. We need more.
I see a few pheasants every year. They are defintely not wild as they aren't too bright. I imagine a lot of cats get them if hawks or coyotes don't find them first. Defintely too stupid to survive very long in the bush.
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Why not work to bring back numbers of native species?Quote:
Originally Posted by glen
Very likely an escape pheasant from a hunting release or dog training exercise.
Another import from Asia why there’s no support for them. It’s a shameQuote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Frustrating we don't have the support like in the US to bring back the #'s so its self sustaining again
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Originally Posted by js4fn
As a kid in King township back in the 70’s and into the 80’s we had them running around pretty regular. Don’t know where they came from. We had plenty of Jack’s back then also!