Started Dogs & Puppies, Training, Stud Service for GSPs
On a breezy late season day in February, 2025 Lily found this covey of uncooperative wild bobwhite in a super thick patch of sandhill plum. As you can see in the video the thicket was noticeably deeper than I expected. I’m not a tall guy and I was almost swallowed up before I got across. The birds flushed wild when Lily relocated and cut off their escape route. They passed right over my head making for a neat video. Enjoy!
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Hunting has been tough so far this season. I’m finding some coveys deep in the large sand plum thickets we have here in the Panhandle. Because of the absence of any meaningful ground cover beneath the thickets the birds are running to the opposite edge and flushing generally out of range. It makes for tough shooting.
Sand plums, also known as Chickasaw plum, Cherokee plum, or Sandhill plum (Prunus angustifolia Marshall), are native fruit-producing shrubs or small trees in Oklahoma. In Panhandle bobwhite habitat they grow in thickets often intermingled with sumac. Sand Plums offer excellent overhead cover for bobwhite and during the summer produce small, tart fruit that my mother turns into awesome jam.
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