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Buzz, With the wet conditions and the high winds, the birds seemed to be spooky. In spite of it all we had a good week away from the "stuff" at home. We still have a good month's worth of bird season left! Karl 
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It was windy for us too. The birds were very wild. Wind does make them spooky. One thing Ive noticed after 50 years of hunting birds.....when their numbers are low, the wilder they are. Survival of the fittest, maybe/likely. The birds I hunted were very wild, most were running and/or flushing at great distance away.
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What Ted said. A rubber boot season.
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Saw NO bearberries or rose hips in MB. Very strange. Does anyone know if sharptails or ruffed eat soybeans? There are 000's of acres unharvested, and many next to woodland and brushland. Quite a bit of swathed canola there also.
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Found Canola in the crops of Hungarian Partridge in Saskatchewan this year.
Don't know about soybeans, but Sharptails surely love peas, lentils and chickpeas.
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I would bet--although I can't recall for sure from the sharptails I've shot--that they'll eat soybeans. I've had people tell me pheasants won't eat soybeans. From what I've observed, they seem to have a preference for corn. But I've found plenty of rooster crops stuffed with soybeans.
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I would bet--although I can't recall for sure from the sharptails I've shot--that they'll eat soybeans. I've had people tell me pheasants won't eat soybeans. From what I've observed, they seem to have a preference for corn. But I've found plenty of rooster crops stuffed with soybeans. Ditto. Almost every species of wildlife I've ever tested prefers corn to soybeans, but they prefer soybeans to everything wild that I have tested against them here in Iowa.
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What different species will eat is determined, IMO, very much by the weather. Doves here feed on many different seeds, both wild and planted. Sunflower, corn, peanut, and wheat are favorites among the cultivated crops. The colder the temps the more doves will feed upon the high fat crops, such as peanuts. Have never seen doves actively feeding on soybeans, with one exception .............. when it snows here, for some unexplained reason, doves are attracted to harvested soybean fields.
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