Isn't this punishment for Ohio voting for Hillery?? The bad winter December 1968 into January 1969 killed off our Quail here in Washington in droves. The game department then dumped out ditch chickens in a lot of the old Quail areas and it took 30 years for the Quail to fully come back. Now with our heavy deep snow this winter I think it has happened again. Skitso and I haven't moved a bird on our morning walks since we returned home from the Las Vegas show. Prior to that we use to average four big coveys in our walk around the neighborhood.