Looks like a good year for wildlife.

[Ron Padilla]

we have a few squirrels in the back yard as well as or did have some rabbit, have seen a few deer feeding in some of the corn fields in the area, not sure about the other areas but here in Sango, Clarksville there is a whole bunch of corn growing this year.  Now we havent been here long but I have to figure that with the amount of corn growing that should also make for a bumper year in turkey as well as deer, and well fed too boot. 

[mudstud]

We have a family of foxes living on the hillside behind my house. They love to come down to the grass line and just lay in the sun. I also have seen a large number of snakes this year around the house.

[Hershmeister]

Saw a coyote run across my driveway in the middle of the day last week. Thought it was a deer at first glance as i only saw the brown fur but then the bushy tail gave it away. My wife jumped 6 inches i her car seat!

[Sidewinder]

Yep, bumper crop of rabbits, turkey and deer around here too. In the five years I've lived here in Henry County, I've only seen one pair of quail.

 

I take it there is still hunt able populations of quail some places in Tennessee?

I sure hope the quail populations come back in all areas of Tennessee. Quail is my favorite bird to hunt... and I love eating them too. Sadly, I've not heard, nor seen, and quail activity around the Murfreesboro area for years now. If the coveys are small, no matter where they are, I hope the hunters will give them a pass, and let them recover. I keep hearing the cause for their decline is habitat, coyotes, turkey, and fire ants, but can't honestly say what's the cause myself. What do you quail hunters out there think?