Early this morning I drove down out of the mountains to Fryeburg, ME where the Maine Bird Dog Club held a work day in preparation for the Northern New England Woodcock Championship. We were able to get courses one and two done at Fiddleheads with the help of two tractors brought and operated by Club […]
Author Archives: Craig Doherty
Lazy Sunday Afternoons
Veronica last winter in Texas. Spent most of the day mowing and then worked some dogs in the late afternoon. Trey and June went to the bird field along with Veronica who now resides with one of my neighbors. Tommy has some of the best bear hounds around and wanted to try a pointing dog […]
A Big Day
Saturday morning the temperature was again in the low 40s as we broke away the first pair of dogs. Kali, one of Bill Branham’s pointers started of the day with four woodcock contacts. In the second brace Wild Apple Jack had three finds and “The Missile” had two that we saw. There was some controversy […]
Why we live in the Mountains
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 […]