It’s supposed to be spring here in Northern New Hampshire but this is what I woke up to this morning. April 24th and it’s still snowing. Spit snow all day yesterday as well but didn’t stick. Once again, like last year, the mating and nesting season of the woodcock and especially the grouse is being […]
Last night a little after 8:00 pm I stepped out into the yard and heard the first singing woodcock of the spring. The really good part of this was the location of the bird. He was singing from the skidder road behind the garage in an area that was dense fir and spruce last year. […]
Took a long walk around the home cover today and got the first look at the “Patch Cut” (pictured above) we did this winter in addition to the main cut of about 25 acres. If there was any doubt about the fact that grouse like a sunny edge, the bird that flushed almost next to […]
Over the years a lot of puppies have gone through the kennel and for the most part they have gone through the same program that produced Grand National Grouse Champions Wild Apple Jack and Autumn Moon. Sometimes they are puppies we’ve whelped like the litter that produced Jack and Moon and sometimes they are puppies […]