Well, I can't speak for ruffs, but, for any prairie-dwelling upland game birds, this summer/fall is going to be a trying time.
Right now, anything taller than a sewing needle is falling to the sicle-bar to make "hay". Grass, CRP, and dried up cattails. Get a little deeper into fall without some rain, the remaining cattails in the Dakotas are going to resemble the oil fires in Kuwait as the Iraqis pulled out of the 1st gulf war. If we get any real winter, given the lack of remaining habitat, the prairie is going to be a fookin' wasteland.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
