Today, when we broke away the first pair of dogs it was 43 degrees. As I am writing this it still hasn’t hit 70. It’s not expected to reach 80 until sometime the middle of next week. It is still very dry in our covers and the birds are not in their usual places in […]
Monday morning the temperature was hovering around 60 and there was a dry northwesterly wind (we didn’t even get our boots wet) and Jack and Ginger had three woodcock finds between them up on an old hill farm near the house. Both of them are a little banged up from running in the heavy cover […]
Thrusday, It was Ker B and Abbie for the “B” dogs and Wild Apple June and Trey for the blog team. Abbie was definitely dog of the day with three finds one of which forced us to cut through a long stretch of heavy, wet cover — we wouldn’t have been wetter had it been […]
The biggest difference between dogs like Wild Apple Jack and Stokely Ginger B and the rest of the dogs on the truck is their overwhelming desire to find birds. When they aren‘t in the places where we normally find them the dogs like these dig in and find them someplace else. That was the case […]