Same around here. Pheasants are like unicorns. It's easily been 35 years since I shot one, and the last one I saw was standing confused beside a highway behind an Applebees' maybe 20 years ago.

When I first started hunting we went to a friend's uncle's place that was in a valley with checkerboards of small pastures or crop fields and interlaced with hedgerows.

Now there are two huge fields - one on either side of the valley. All the hedgerows are gone. :-(

But we have a good piece of woods behind us (five by eight miles) and grouse still play there - if they can avoid the coyotes and foxes.