Hunting · email alerts for New England, New York and Pennsylvania
Pheasant releases by county, permit deadlines before they close, antlerless licenses left in your Pennsylvania WMU, the mornings ducks should move, and every deer, turkey and bear opener a week ahead.
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Sample alerts from real days
Stocked near you, closest first: SGL 229 (10 mi), SGL 106 (13 mi), SGL 160 (13 mi), SGL 227 (14 mi), SGL 257 (15 mi), Swatara State Park (20 mi).
The Game Commission’s 2nd in-season release.
Per Pennsylvania Game Commission pheasant allocation.
Sample alert: a real November week in Schuylkill County, PA, from the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s 2026 allocation.
Apply or buy on the state’s licensing site; check the agency’s page for the details.
Per Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
Sample alert: a real June deadline, from Vermont Fish and Wildlife’s 2026 release.
Sunday’s front brings the high down 14°F.
Our forecast reading, not a count of birds. Check your state’s waterfowl season dates, zones and legal hunting hours.
Per National Weather Service Boston/Norton, MA forecast.
Sample alert: a real December front near Hartford, CT, rebuilt from the airport’s weather records and Caribou, Maine’s.
One deer of either sex; landowner permission required on private land. Check your state’s rules for hours, licenses and limits.
Per Vermont Fish & Wildlife.
Sample alert: a real November weekend in Vermont, from the department’s 2026 deer season guide.
A Hunting reader at a home in State College, PA would have gotten 40 emails from January through October 2026, about one a week: 37 from Hunting (mostly season openers, hunting forecast and pheasant releases) and 3 with only free alerts (license renewals and meteor showers & clear skies).
| Month | Emails | Free alerts only |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0 |
| March | 0 | 0 |
| April | 1 | 0 |
| May | 0 | 0 |
| June | 5 | 2 |
| July | 5 | 0 |
| August | 3 | 0 |
| September | 6 | 0 |
| October | 15 | 1 |
We ran that year's real weather and agency records through the same rules that send our alerts. Where an alert reads a forecast, the weather that actually came stood in for it. The busiest month was October, with 15. You can turn off any alert you don't want.
The Game Commission releases pheasants in rounds from October: a youth round, a preseason round, then in-season rounds, county by county. We email the week a round is planned for your county or the counties near you, from the Game Commission’s own allocation pages.
Pennsylvania by county and week, New Hampshire’s stocking days, Connecticut’s release pattern across 38 areas, and Massachusetts at 151 release sites.
It depends on the state, the zone and the year. We email every deer, turkey and bear opener a week ahead for your place in all eight states we cover, from each state’s own season dates.
In Pennsylvania, often, until they sell out. From June to January we email when your WMU’s antlerless licenses are running low, sell out or come back on sale, from the state’s own counts.
Usually on north to northwest morning winds behind a cold front, after a freeze farther north (Bellrose, 1957; Schummer and others, 2010). From October to January we email when the forecast says the next morning or two should bring that.
Updated November 2026.
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