Started hunting around Palouse at 9am. The first patch we came to had a couple quail but nothing else. As we are coming up to the next piece of good cover two rigs pull up and six hunters jump out in front of us, (not more then 200 yards) and start hunting the same stuff we are. We run up to were they are and are like, "What the Hell, you guys completely corked us!" Evidently they didnt see us and voluntarily let us pass through. We ended up getting two roosters, a couple huns and a few quail. Today we hunted for a while and picked up another rooster and a few more huns. All in all, this is the worst hatch we have seen ever, for pheasants. The hun and quail population were amazing but we were looking for roosters. I think total, with two guys and 3 veteran bird dogs we flushed 5 hens and 4 roosters. Normally in this area we hunt we flush a dozen or more roosters and several dozen hens.
I have some picks,(none of birds) but I will try to post them.