The summer of 2012, while not as hot as last year, has been mostly a bummer for bobwhites.  What started out as a potential rebound, given a wet winter, mostly disintegrated come June, just when La Nina was supposed to ceding climatic control to her more benevolent brother El Nino.  At best any budding El Nino has surfaced as being a shy, freckle-faced sibling.  I say freckle-faced because I cannot remember a summer punctuated by more spotty precipitation.    Here in west Texas there have been numerous little rain showers to provide some relief from the afternoon heat, but it’s been a real case of “haves and have nots.”