I had a second conversation with WDFW and for now, they asked me to just put down one bird instead of zero birds taken. I asked them, "won't that be garbage information for your harvest report? That will make it look like everyone who hunted always got at least one. That's junk information for any real survey ain't it?"
"It's as close as we can get for this year, so just put in the number and don't worry about it."
I'm not impressed at all.