Daryl, there's a lot of grasping of straws for explanation for what is the enemy. Some say it's the federal law prohibiting the killing of raptors, coyotes, turkeys, uber efficient harvesting of grain crops, shrinking habitat, snakes, elimination of cover on field edges, pine plantations, cattle egrets, elimination of competing weeds in production fields, increased population (making room for folks eliminates habitat) and the list goes on.
There are parts of TX that have had for all time, coyotes, turkeys, raptors, snakes, not a drop of production grain farming, and despite what we in the SE blame for quail loss, are head over heels in numbers of wild quail. It's a riddle. Gil
The one thing those parts of Texas have that we also have is the eye worm, in quail. In fact, Texas is where they were discovered in quail.
