battue,
Thanks! We found these birds on public land in Eastern North Carolina we're likely to never hunt again ( work moves us around every few months). I thought about leaving them be after the first day but made a decision towards the side of working my young dog on wild birds. We'll likely not mess with them anymore this week ( gonna try our hand at woodcock after this big storm) then it's home to Florida for Christmas and on to Eastern Tennessee where hopefully we can find more wild birds to harass! Hopefully we didn't bother them terribly, thank you for that information as in my opinion teaching conservation goes hand in hand with teaching hunting.
