I mentioned this a few years ago, in the NW corner and surrounding areas of MS and Tn the population has declined. I've been mentioning this to my friend that's a biologist, he told me last year that he had heard the same thing from other biologist.

2 years back in TN on a place that has had numerous gobblers, well Primo's crew killed zilch.

The biologist cruise certain areas up here at certain times doing poult counts, another Trace guy counts as well, all declining.

The property i hunt, the Trace splits it right before the big bottoms going into MS. Always had big numbers of birds, now maybe a 1/3 of what we had just 10-15 years ago.

The poult count does look better this year. thumbsup

bird populations cycle however we had a bigger dip than the norm

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