12/05/2018 Where quail bunker down

I have not spent too many days in the woods this hunting season, though at 75 and counting I have probably not spent too few either. Despite the disappointing harvest and population statistics, there still wild quail on public land in Mississippi. I’ve seen four coveys this year in three different habitat types on two different Mississippi WMAs, Upper Sardis WMA and Charles Ray Nix WMA. The common themes were thick cover, young pine and along creek beds. The bunker I observed off of T5 is the inspiration for the lost title. 

Quail bunker 1 - Edge of a young pine growth along an old logging trail 

10/4/18 Upper Sardis, covey of five to six birds near a fallen pine covered in briars

This is habitat I’ve seen wild quail in Mississippi on public land during 2018

Quail Bunker 2 - Fenceline in high grass on edge of a pond 

11/17/18 Charles Ray Nix, covey of five to six birds along barbed wire fence with thick grass on both sides and under fence next to a maintained trail and a pond, see green flag

Quail bunker 3 - Along protected edge of low but not dry creek in bamboo kudzu mix

11/17/18 Charles Ray Nix, covey of six to eight birds in thick bamboo kudzu mix along protected edge of a very low but not dry wooded creek running between two fields, the second covey I observed during my primitive weapon draw hunt

Quail Bunker  # 4 - Along a road next to young thick pine stand near a presbribed burn upland hardwood/pine mix

11/17/18 Upper Sardis WMA near Drewery Lake among the road, one bird hopped into the pine thicket, but I could hear a few talking  

Quail Bunker #5 - along edge of a creek run off in foliage mixed with patches of grass and bamboo  

12/5/2018 Upper Sardis WMA near the Little Tallahatchie in creek edge upstream of waterfowl impoundments near bamboo and near a mature pine stand a single bird