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That's what's funny here. Sissetonai were generally cooperative and in fact helped put down some renegades. In recognition the reservation was dissolved and tribal members could tree claim 200 acres. So the whole former res is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal land. In fact my house sits on a former tree claim, sold to a white farmer. Tribal land is generally filled with rocks from the last glacier and is good for grazing. Some is tillable (leased) but none of it is particularly good for pheasants. So it amounts to no white guys wanted unless we can screw them. Same with working with the GF&P in setting seasons and limits for good management since the patchwork of tribal land works down to couple hundred acre parcels. Better now, but a few years ago the tribe sold as many licenses as they could through the casino advertising extended seasons and generous limits.

Not usually, a bird’s outline is of course a function of its feathers at any particular moment, said feathers being raised or lowered at will. Resting birds or cold-stressed and/or starving birds frequently fluff out their body feathers to conserve heat.

The feathers are so efficient that technically it ain’t often a bird succumbs to hypothermia, usually their ramped-up avian metabolism has ‘em maintain body heat all the way till they die of actual starvation, which in a normal-weight songbird is about three days without food.

Sam, sorry to hear about the low number of birds you've been able to get. I only wish we had more pheasant around here. Seems like decent habitat, at least around the borders of private/public land. I do need to get up behind the house a half mile or so where I found a covey of quail while deer hunting. Don't think I've ever seen anyone go up there after them.

Boomer and birdy, maybe they are cowbirds. MBBs? (medium brownish birds?)

Geno

Yes, brown headed cow birds, BHCBs. And common grackkes CGs. And maybe some BBBs.

SO...........you knew what they were and had us all guessing from a grainy, out of focus, picture?

Geezely crow.....................the only thing I have to say is.............









GFY

Geno