Lloyd Carney was up with us this week and took a number of pictures of birds and dogs. I have included some of them here. The first is Trash pointing what I think was a grouse. We had so much bird work this past week it’s hard to keep it straight. The second one is […]
Tony got called in to work today and I had a lot to do around the house so I only got out with the puppy. Ran LJ in a grouse cover and we had a nonproductive on a drumming log and three woodcock finds. I had to curtail some of his growing independence. Thank goodness […]
I have a vague recollection of a series of movies based around a roadhouse called “Porkie’s”. When you run bird dogs you will eventually have to deal with another type of Porkies — the ones with the quills. Tony, Frankie (the dog), and I had an encounter with one on March 26th (see the post […]
It was overcast, in the mid-40s, and spitting a little rain and sleet a couple of times today which meant the grouse were out in numbers. Little Thuddy started the count with a single grouse contact and then we ran Abbie and LJ up in the Orchard. There weren’t any birds in the regular places […]