Anybody know anything about the prospects for a better quail season in Southern/central CA? I went into the Angeles Natnl. Forest near Santa Clarita (San Francisquito Canyon)very early last Thursday and heard quail calling in many of the side canyons. Is that a sign that they are mating this year?
I also visited the Carrizo Plains NM last week. No quail in the NM itself (that I could hear) but pronghorns and Tule elk, pretty rare in CA. CP is a lotta lonely....just 100 miles as the condor flies from Sunset Blvd. Saw one condor (with a redtailed hawk) for scale, surfin' the thermals on the Temblor Range. DAMN those things are big!
The minute I got out of the rain shadow into the green part of the Coast Range, I started seeing and hearing quail. We gonna have a quail season? (We're clearly gonna have a SNAKE season; nearly stepped on a 4+ ft. rattler in San Francisquito; and had a small tiff with a big red coachwhip, non-poisonous but bad tempered, here in Orange County).
What say ye--any CA quail augurs?
