My favorite game bird, by far.  None more beautiful.  None more fun to hunt.  2nd only to quail for table fare.
	
	
		
		
	
	
		 
		
	 
They come by name 'ditch parrots' honestly! 
Due to  a weekly long drive I have to make, to visit a son in rehab 2/3s the way across Iowa, I get to see a lot of farm country.  I've been seeing more pheasants this year than in the last 10-and unf a lot of roadkilled roosters.  Many seem to have surived, despite the more severe winter.  Spring so far has been cool.  Flooding gets all the media attention-and while we still aren't out of the woods yet, much of the worst of that was weeks ago, before prime nesting season.   I'm hopeful.
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