Thursday, January 01, 2009
New Year's Quills
Drove up Pine Grove Mountain to Broken Rib Covert to usher in the New Year with Lilly. Temps in the 20s, bright sun, dusting of snow. Grouse tracks everywhere. Within 20 minutes we had flushed roughly 5 birds (hard to precisely count with the noise I made breaking through ice), several off of creeping points. Lilly was starting to settle. Then, a perfect point. I swung wide around her and she held. Perfection. When I was but five yards from her nose, she broke. Off waddled a porcupine. We'll try again tomorrow.
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if you look up "versatile dog" in the dictionary, there's a picture of Lilly with quills sticking out of her mouth. no kidding.
Like mother like daughter...took Artemis two go arounds with the quills.
Awww man, not the outcome I had envisioned after talking to you on the phone...not unlike the PSU performance in the Rose Bowl.
McPhee--strangely enough--was a quick learner on the quilled queatures...only took him one time. But the one time was pretty epic. Nice photo, btw!
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