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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 185115" data-attributes="member: 605">The habitat the habitat......it's a theme. 2007 was the last banner year for me. They were everywhere. Today I farm the same land the same way and they are few. What changed? These dry as hell springs/summers from March until August suck for the hatch. Chicks need dew to hydrate and aphids for food. There was none. Exceptional drought category 4. Alfalfa fields are an excellent nursery. Back in 2007 there were several nests in every field. Today....cut all day to see two. What I do is take some hay from the windrow and pile it around the south side of the nest so when she returns she has shade. But that is a double edged sword. Predators key in on that pile. Had two duck nests about 200 yards apart. One flushed so I cut around it leaving some hay standing. When I came back to check the predators got it and then noticed the other duck sitting right out in the open sun. They hatched.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fritz the Cat, post: 185115, member: 605"] The habitat the habitat......it's a theme. 2007 was the last banner year for me. They were everywhere. Today I farm the same land the same way and they are few. What changed? These dry as hell springs/summers from March until August suck for the hatch. Chicks need dew to hydrate and aphids for food. There was none. Exceptional drought category 4. Alfalfa fields are an excellent nursery. Back in 2007 there were several nests in every field. Today....cut all day to see two. What I do is take some hay from the windrow and pile it around the south side of the nest so when she returns she has shade. But that is a double edged sword. Predators key in on that pile. Had two duck nests about 200 yards apart. One flushed so I cut around it leaving some hay standing. When I came back to check the predators got it and then noticed the other duck sitting right out in the open sun. They hatched. [/QUOTE]

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