We meet up with another friend of mine and hunted some slopes.


Throwing me a quail.


Finding water where you can.




A beautiful bird IMO.


We had fun over the next few days exploring old and new country. I always like to hunt some previous ground as well as mixing in some new.
We had one day where we hunted way back in on some drainages where we found a number of nice sized covies.


I like to see different country and that is one of the draws of the desert. It has a wide variety of country and birds to hunt. We moved on to see some new country and birds. Our intention was to hunt Scaled quail since Mearns numbers are very low in traditional Mearns country.

Here I am working an edge.


Greg walking in on point.


Greg and his first Scaled Quail.