We also have lots of turkeys; we see them everywhere. I'm not a hunter, but looking at the statistics from the NC Wildlife Commission, populations of bobwhite quail are low compared to previous years, but we have enough that there is still a season to hunt them. At our previous property I heard a male bobwhite calling very close by once. I whistled back to him and he answered me, although I never saw him. Even when our populations were higher, we never had an abundance of quail in the mountains, as they are more of a field bird, but we used to have grouse, and their populations are also low, so there is a lot of focus on managing habitat for them.