Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-11 | Page 8 | Hawks and Jays are Raiding Quail

HAWKS AND JAYS ARE RAIDING QUAIL Game Wardens Slaughtering predatory-Birds predatory-Birds in Northern Counties Which ! Are Infesting Feeding Grounds. Exte: mination of feeding qtiail bv t he blue "gosh" hawk and the wood or blue-jay, blue-jay, at the state feeding grounds in the northern counties of the state, is threatened threat-ened and, as a result, game wardens, with the sanction of Fred W. Chambers, stale hsh and game commissioner, are shooting the predatory birds in large numbers. In order to furnish sport for the nim-rods nim-rods of tiie state, some sixty dozen Bob White quail "were imported from Kansas City qast spring. These and the native quail require feeding when the snow blankets tiie ground. Food for them is left at their usual places of gathering. Driven from the higher haunts in the hills bv the severe weather, the hawks and jays, which are hot h omnivorous types, have been swooping down and killins: off tiie quail ly scores. In order to repine the quail lost through the raids of the hawks and iavs and those UiHed off by tiie severe weather, weath-er, from SfifHi to fiDftit native quail are being trapped in southern Utah and will be shipped to northern counties to furnish fur-nish sport next fall.