I took Jay and Tanya out.

I took Jay and Tanya out. We were hunting that blind on the Avon with not a single waterfowl in the air but roosters cackling up and down both sides of the river. I have never hear anything like it. Perhaps something to do with the pending storm. Anyhow – by half-hour after sunrise we couldn’t stand it any longer. We swapped camo for orange and steel for lead and hit the dykes for the long hunt. We put up two hens then finally a nice rooster that ran back past us through the ditch with Ruby hot on its tail. When it flushed it was behind some trees and Tanya and I both missed. This was her first shot at anything live and I think she found it quite exciting. By great good luck it circled right over Jay who was on the next hedgerow over and he took it with a clean shot (his first wingshot bird ever!). We then went to Grand Pre and worked very hard along cornfield edges to push out 3 more hens and three more roosters. We should have had two of the roosters but Jay’s Mossberg pump jammed on him again. I got one just as it popped out of one cornfield and flew across the swale into the next. A difficult but good blind retrieve of a wounded bird for Ruby. We packed up just as the first sheets of rain came down.

Hope you both had good weekends and got a few birds!

-Dave