Comments on: bobwhite http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/ photography for a new book by Kevin Fleming Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:20:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Beth Isaacs http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-5244 Beth Isaacs Tue, 27 May 2008 19:29:09 +0000 http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-5244 Today was a first -- for me, anyway: I heard a mockingbird chirping "Bob-Bob White! Bob-Bob White!" It seems a sure sign that the bobwhite quail are back in healthy numbers in Delaware! The mockingbird seemed pleased to trumpet the news. Today was a first — for me, anyway: I heard a mockingbird chirping “Bob-Bob White! Bob-Bob White!”

It seems a sure sign that the bobwhite quail are back in healthy numbers in Delaware! The mockingbird seemed pleased to trumpet the news.

]]> By: Beth Isaacs http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-4384 Beth Isaacs Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:14:58 +0000 http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-4384 Kevin, I too remember hearing the call of bobwhite quail, as a kid in the 1950s/'60s near Lincoln, Del. Last May I heard their calls and them spied some, in the woods near the Virden Center in Lewes. That was exciting, as I'd been told they'd gotten scarce in these parts! Kevin,
I too remember hearing the call of bobwhite quail, as a kid in the 1950s/’60s near Lincoln, Del.

Last May I heard their calls and them spied some, in the woods near the Virden Center in Lewes. That was exciting, as I’d been told they’d gotten scarce in these parts!

]]> By: Jody Hudson http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-4351 Jody Hudson Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:04:02 +0000 http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/04/25/bobwhite/#comment-4351 It has been soooo very long since I have seen a nice plump quail like that. We used to have thousands of them here and it was quite a gentlemans sport to go afield with a nice shotgun and get enough for a big pot-pie. Now, I seldom even hear one, perhaps I have heard ten in the last twenty years. When I was first hunting at about nine years old, about 1958, I would hear perhaps a hundred calls every day and virtually on every farm I went upon here in this area. They were then suddenly gone. It has been soooo very long since I have seen a nice plump quail like that. We used to have thousands of them here and it was quite a gentlemans sport to go afield with a nice shotgun and get enough for a big pot-pie. Now, I seldom even hear one, perhaps I have heard ten in the last twenty years. When I was first hunting at about nine years old, about 1958, I would hear perhaps a hundred calls every day and virtually on every farm I went upon here in this area. They were then suddenly gone.

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