Here’s some of my favorite photos from my recent trip to South Eastern Idaho. I’ll post some specifics later this week… Setter Feathers…
Category: Bird Dogs
Gadabout
Gadabout is a person that travels for personal pleasure…which is what I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing the past 10 days in southern Idaho in search of birds with dogs! Below are a few preview photos from Idaho….much more to follow when I return to Colorado next week. Setter Feathers…
BLM Nomads
I have an extreme dislike for politicians. Unfortunately…One of my favorite grouse species is the most political bird in North America. The Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) or the spiny-tailed pheasant as Lewis and Clark described them in 1806 once inhabited 16 Western states and 3 Canadian providences. Their historic distribution has decreased significantly over the…
Grouse Camp
Glorious September has commenced…days of anticipation are over and the gunning season is upon us. The aspen hues of green will soon change to gold…but as the poet penned nothing gold can stay. Nothing gold can stay, so get your bird dogs and take them into the grouse woods of Colorado or wherever for that matter. September…
Freethought or Possibly Opening Up a Can of Worms for Bait Fishing
I have received several emails from bird hunters asking of my opinion on certain bird dog immunizations including the Rattlesnake vaccine by Red Rock Biologics. I have not vaccinated my dogs with this vaccine because of the USDA conditional license status this vaccine carries (If you read the bottom line on the photo which reads,…
Wayne Simmons’ The Story of Jules Verne: A Watch Pocket Dog
Stoically, I wait on for the upcoming bird-dog season and the aspen auxins to change the leaves from the green to golds of the Colorado blue grouse country…the caddis are hatching on my home waters seducing recluse big-browns to the surface. Before long, I’ll be in the Colorado high country hunting greenback cutthroats with mayflies, yellow…
The Master
People just don’t say things or write them the way they used to. Not to dwell on nostalgia…but we live in the days of instant gratification…the days of go big or go home. I recently finished a great book on 1776 giving the first hand accounts of General George Washington‘s first year as the commander of…
>Windmills
> I spend too much time raiding windmillsWe go side by sideLaughing until it’s right There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesTake the darkest hour-break it openWater to repair what we have broken There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesBaby anywhere the wind blowsIt’s all worth waiting for Pull…
>Colorado Blues & other Blogger Happenings
>What’s better than opening day in the Colorado Rockies with bird dogs in tote? Not much! 70 degrees and blue bird skies with a slight cool September breeze was the perfect weather to kick off the grouse season. The morning started with my alarm going off at 2 am. A whorl-wind commute through the mountains…
>Glorious September First
>Just got back from Colorado blue grouse country. Glorious day. More details to follow… Setter Feathers…
>Artist Bob Bertram
>MY NOVEMBER GUEST by: Robert Frost (1874-1963) MY Sorrow, when she’s here with me,Thinks these dark days of autumn rainAre beautiful as days can be;She loves the bare, the withered tree;She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay.She talks and I am fain to list:She’s glad the birds are gone…
Upland Ways 