Breeding Chucker's Mead area, Weld

[Pauli Smith]

I have a pair of Chuckers who have been hanging around my yard for three weeks now. I’m sure that they are escapees from the hunt club up the road. Until today, whenever I saw them (several times a day) they were always together. Today, I’ve only seen the male. Unless something got a hold of the female, I am assuming that she is now sitting on a nest somewhere.

 

They do not seem to be concerned with human or our dogs activity. They are a little wary, but not excessively so. I have a Vizsla who thankfully failed all her hunting training and was surrendered to a local rescue where we adopted her from. She has no interest in birds at all, but squirrels, rabbits, mice, and voles are a whole different matter. ;-).

 

I have no idea where their nest might be, but they were spending a lot of time around our barn and hen house and then under the bird feeders on the south side of our house. I mostly see them now around the south or west yards where there are a lot of trees and cover.

 

Pauli Smith

Highlandlake/Mead, Weld County