Much better bird hunting trip when you remember to turn the gps collar on...

Good looking dogs!
I need to get on one of these with my GSP and EP

I wouldn't mind the contact. Can email me at my sig @gmail.com

That's what I have been hearing from Texas. I'm assuming drought related?

Haven’t been in awhile, but I love hunting wild quail.

That country looks pretty parched. We got some rain closer to my neck of the woods (north of you) and have had some good hunting.

I'm not buying the parasite stuff. Eye worms have been documented in quail for a long time, even when numbers were consistently higher than they have been for the last decade or so (excluding the boom years in the mid-20 teens). I have a contact that is involved with the Rolling Plains Quail Research ranch, and from what he has told me, all the money they have spent on the parasite work and medicated feed has borne no fruit.

My belief is that changing ranching practices, combined with extended periods of drought/unstable weather, and likely elevated predator numbers are what is responsible for the poor bird numbers in many places. I spend a lot of time in what has historically been quail country, and a lot of these ranches are grown up in cedars, graze to the dirt, etc. I don't think that west Texas/western OK is one huge quail landscape like it once was. My impression is that the quality habitat is considerably more fragmented than it has been historically.