Huhwhat?
Blackhawk
These quail are on the top of the fence bordering the local law enforcement shooting range - and the sheriff's deputies were there shooting.
Surprisingly safe quail
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Good to see some quails regardless of where they are.
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
Smart birds. I wonder how many other 'wanted' game animals hang out near the Sheriffs range for protection? 
I have two pairs that regularly visit one of my feeders. They are fun birds to watch.
Mike Armstrong
Hunter
Where we are (SoCal) most of the quail are to be found in places like that--where the people and the WATER are. Out in the wildlands there isn't much water and damn' few quail, not enough to hunt this year, anyway. Even the chukars are thin, and that is one tough critter....
Those Gambel's quail are beautiful little birds! Great pic; thanks for sharing.
Those Gambel's quail are beautiful little birds! Great pic; thanks for sharing.
That's funny. We have deer on our trap & skeet range. At sundown they start coming out and can be found near some of the far throwers on the 5-stand range.
Don Lovel
Hunter
Our friend in Ajo has a watering pan in her front yard destert botanical garden. The baby quail are the cutest critters on the planet
toysoldier
Hunter
I was at our shooting range where several shooters had just finished a round at 200 yards. As they were getting ready for the next round, an 8-point buck casually trotted across the range behind the firing line. We just watched him go.
I got a call today asking if I would help raise money for some national quail society or something. Guess I'll have to find out more about it. There are a few running around the neighborhood, At least I saw them earlier in the year. Cats may have got them for all I know. We used to hunt quail when I was a kid. There's a college there now where we hunted. I must be getting old.
mohavesam
Hawkeye
Reminds me of the deer herds surrounding the Jackson Prison complex in MI. No safer place in the state for deer, as a section with a mile-radius around the prison farms were posted and monitored and any hunter or trespasser would warrant an instant armed response by live-ammo DOC minions. They always filed charges, too. The deer were fat, big-antlered, and roamed the roadside like cats around a leaky milk truck. Untouchable. And I think sometimes they knew it.
