Quail on the Westside

[HikerHunter]

I live in Auburn near the Federal Way border.

We get them periodically.

Interesting, I live in Federal Way near the Auburn border and we see them periodically. 

[Wanttohuntmore]

I've seen them in Pierce county,  not much though.   Do we have woodcock in western wa?  I swear I've seen them in Lewis County.

[PolarBear]

South Thurston county has it all! Plenty of quail
 Pheasant have been long established as a wild population.  The occasional released chukar that survives a week. Turkeys and even  a few small coveys of huns near Tenino!

When I use to haul hay off South Bank Rd. near Oakville there were about a dozen chuckars that hung around for about 2 years. I’m surprised they lasted that long.

[Mfowl]

I've seen them in Pierce county,  not much though.   Do we have woodcock in western wa?  I swear I've seen them in Lewis County.

We have snipe but no woodcock. They look very similar.

[PatoLoco]

I often wonder what the west side quail population would be if DFW raised/released them instead of pheasants. Granted pen raised birds are dumb as a rock, and DFW is releasing pheasants for the hunting opportunity and not to establish populations, but it seems quail are more likely to reproduce in western WA than pheasants.

[CSherwood]

I saw quail in my Renton area neighborhood last summer for the first time.  I was walking the springer spaniels and the pup started going nuts.  I thought I was seeing things for a minute, but the wife said she saw the same. 

[Boss .300 winmag]

I wonder how bobwhites would do on the wetside?🤔

[JimmyHoffa]

I still see lots of them in the rainshadow on the peninsula.  Not quite as many with all the development, but in summer can see three or four dozen almost daily.

[PolarBear]

I wonder how bobwhites would do on the wetside?🤔

We have a few around here that are holdovers from dog training on JBLM land. Every spring I whistle up a couple.

[Remnar]

I wonder how bobwhites would do on the wetside?🤔

Not well, or they would be here and established . Same with pheasants . 

[Bullkllr]

I wonder how bobwhites would do on the wetside?🤔

We have a few around here that are holdovers from dog training on JBLM land. Every spring I whistle up a couple.

I saw a big flock of bobwhites -20 years+ ago- off 702 when the timber south of the hwy was still owned by Weyerhaueser. I was elk hunting during muzz season. Couldn't believe my eyes.

[Remnar]

  Exactly.

[Pete112288]

In the late 90s early 2000s we had a couple california quail show up on our 5 acres outside of La Center down here in SW WA. I always assumed they were random escapees. Within a couple miles of us I knew of 2 or 3 people that raised them. However what really surprised me one year while early muzzy elk hunting I saw a covey of 20+ bobwhites in a clearcut near the SW side of Yale lake. Never have seen them before or since. That day 8 of them ran across the logging road in front of me. 6 or so more took off flying from the spot those had come running from. Then 5 more as I came up closer to that spot. The first 8 took off and for the next 20 feet after that, each step I took, 2 or 3 or 4 more would bust out and take off from the edge of the road.

[Sundance]

Before the Amazon warehouse was build by the Bremerton airport I’d see mountain quail on that hillside. They’d run around the parking lot of the Defiance/Arima production facility. I’ve seen them in the hills above the watershed, but never more then a handful at a time. Cool looking critters.

[hunter_sean08]

Fair amount of California Quail in Port Angeles. Don’t always see them with all the vegetation but you can’t miss their calls. If you’re good at whistling it can be fun trying to call them in.


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