The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has given the green light to OH’s early migratory bird hunting season. The woodcock hunting season opens October 12 and runs through November 25. The limit is three birds a day and a season limit of six birds. Of course you might want to loosen up on dove. The dove hunting season starts September 1 and ends October 14 and then starts again from November 10 through November 25. The daily limit is 15 birds and a season limit of 30 birds. Now I don’t know about you but the shotshell manufacturers will see a spike in business with me during dove season.
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Here in British Columbia the upland bird season starts in early September. I hardy can wait with anticipation of going after partridge and hopefully pheasants too. If I say "hopefully pheasant too", it is because these birds are not as common here as in Illinois where I used to live and hunt.
-Othmar Vohringer-
Posted by: Othmar Vohringer | July 21, 2007 09:46 PM
Deerslayer,
Funny you should ask. I just finished speaking with some of my biologist contacts in New England and they are saying the word out of Canada is that the Canada goose nesting numbers are low because of wet, cold weather this past spring. So you can figure migratory birds number will be like last year. Not sure where you are located but resident Canada populations are good. Hope and pray for cold weather if you hunt geese south of Long Island Sound. If there's green food for geese to eat they won't fly south but hold up farther north.
Posted by: robert | July 22, 2007 08:36 AM
There's definitely a sweet spot in the midwest for pheasant. Up here in New England they are stocked by state wildlife agencies. Few hold over but that's not the point. The pheasant are stock on a put-and-take basis. I wrote an entry named Lonesome Pheasant about a pheasant in CT that was a hold over from last season.
Posted by: robert | July 22, 2007 08:41 AM
"...Canada goose nesting numbers are low because of wet, cold weather this past spring."
Deerslayer, I wish it only would have been a cold and wet spring. Looks like the summer is going to be much the same as the spring, not cold but wet, very wet. At least thats the weather situation here in British Columbia. I do see fewer nesting geese here this year.
-Othmar Vohringer-
Posted by: Othmar Vohringer | July 22, 2007 07:38 PM
Othmar my info came from biologists who spoke to Canadian biologists in the Quebec Province. Thanks for keeping me honest.
Posted by: robert | July 22, 2007 08:50 PM