WOW! Baby Quail this late?

[quailchaser]

Everyone,

 

I was working in the yard yesterday and saw about 10 baby quail run through by the back fence. (They were Gambel's.) Mom and pop were with them. They could not have been more than 1-2 days old.

 

Has anyone seen little guys around in the other areas? I was really startled. I've never seen anyting hatch this late: grouse, quail, pheasant, etc.

 

Thanks!

[jackshoe]

I have seen quail in the past that couldn't fly real well on opening day-but this is pretty late.

[BigMoqui]

On opening day in 2007 or 2008 (this is when opening day was like the 10th of oct. or somewhere thereabouts) I was hunting near Oracle and my dog flushed a single bird on the way back to the truck. I thought it was from a covey we broke up early that morning on the way in. As it rose I shot and had my seventh bird and was feeling pretty good about myself until I rounded the other side of the bush that she flushed from and saw about ten almost featherless chicks start running from the dog into the brush. They had pin feathers on the wings and a few feathers on the rest of there body and were about 2-3" tall. I'm pretty sure they didn't survive. So when G$F decided to move the season up recently I was opposed, but it was one of their opportunity deals. We had good weather that year and I think that was a double clutch, but don't know for sure.

[DesertBull]

I saw two batches of newly hatched chicks last weekend.

[scoutm]

I had two groups around my house about 2-3 weeks ago. Had to be only a few days old.

[DCS]

We have little ones here in the Peeples Valley area.

[Norty]

I saw two different clutches this morning while scouting for dove. Little buggers.