Pheasants Heading for Cover
Source: www.iowadnr.com
Published: Dec. 09, 2008
BOONE - Iowa pheasant hunters are turning to areas with more robust cover to find pheasants after the recent snow and blowing snow filled in road ditches and fence lines. Look for fields enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, rows of conifers or shrubs located next to crop fields as places to be holding the most pheasants.
Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said pheasant hunting has been good where the August bird counts were better including in north central and northwest Iowa, and more difficult in areas where the counts were lower, like in north east, east central, southeast, southwest and south central parts of the state.
The Iowa corn harvest is coming to a close in southern Iowa. Hunters should be looking for pheasants filling their crops in the morning and evening on waste grain in these fields. Iowa's pheasant season runs through Jan. 10, 2009.
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