Maryland DNR proposals

[tjwatty]

Here in Illinois they have proposed dropping our three zone quota system for a regular style season. I think it's a two bird 76 day or a one bird 90 day. The old quota system is confusing at best, I live in the central zone but hunt on the Mississippi where there is no quota. 50 miles to the north is the Northern zone and around Chicago is a special zone that has an early nuisance season that allows 5 birds. Now if that doesn't have you all confused you should have been here when we had a number system....
All these changes are dependant on the feds of course, we will find out sometime in August.
Hunting on the Mississippi I personally have noticed quite a decline in bluebills the last 4 or 5 years. One of the largest wintering areas for bills is just 30 miles south of where we hunt and we still see a lot of birds. Less than 10 years ago we would be able to see groups of 100 zooming up and down the river all day long. Now it's like 4 or 5 days the it slows to a crawl and very rare to see 100 bird flocks anymore.
Keep shooting those golf course geese and they will get smart fast.