Every summer we go through the same thing.  It seems like birds are next to impossible to find and then they seem to appear out of nowhere.  This morning was like that in Red Barn.  Birds have been hard to come by until Saturday when Tony ran by himself and had 17 woodcock with Big […]

As the middle of July fast approaches, we mark the halfway point in our summer wild bird program.  So far all the dogs in camp have had opportunities on wild birds — both grouse and woodcock — and, since we have so many young dogs, they have also been getting regular work on pigeons.  The […]

My daughter and granddaughter helping with the bird planting.  I’ve got added help here at the kennel for a while.  my daughter Meghan and Granddaughter Ellis are here visiting.  Mostly Ellis just rides the four-wheeler and her mother makes sure she doesn’t drive off while I’m planting birds, but it sure is fun having them […]

One of the major pluses of living here in the North Country is that I get to work dogs in the summer on native grouse and woodcock.  There is no better teaching tool then to get young dogs out in the woods and have them come in contact with and learn to hunt for and […]