TIPTON, Kan. — TIPTON, Kan. _ When Keith Houghton says that you can set your watch on the prairie chickens' arrival to the cropfields he hunts in the Kansas Blue Hills, he isn't exaggerating. "Lately, they've been coming in at 4:20 (p.m. CST)," he said as he leaned against a fence post at the edge of a cut cornfield and surveyed an endless landscape of rolling prairie. "They're very predictable. "They'll follow the same path from their roost out on the prairie to the feed every day, unless there's a major change in the weather. You just have to do your scouting, and then hope they fly over you when they come in."...
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