Your birds were escapes from a game farm or managed private hunting
area. There have been no wild Bobwhites in the metro area for many years.
Manley Olson
On 7/26/2010 7:23 PM, Ben Sandstrom wrote:
This afternoon at Crow-Hassan Park Reserve in northern Hennepin County I
observed one Northern Bobwhite, and probably spooked two others nearby
that I only heard rustling in the vegetation.
In the grassland east of Prairie Lake I heard a Bobwhite calling, but couldn't
see it, so I started walking towards the sound. I got to a shrub clump on top
of the hill where I found the bird sitting calmly - in clear view - only ten
feet in
front of me. I had no camera with me to photograph the bird, but I assume it
is/was breeding in the area and could be found again.
-Ben Sandstrom
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