Perfect Colorado weather for a last jaunt across the short grass prairie in search of scaled quail. Bitter-sweetness…the company was grand and the dogs grander! Plans are drawn and dog purchases are being made for the coming fall! I can hardly wait! Idaho for 2 weeks for certain! Pray for the perfect weather conditions and…
Category: Prairies
Season’s End
The season is winding down…tomorrow is the last day for me and the bird dogs to go out and chase birds. Birds of course being quail. We have had a great season and have piles of memories to hold us over the next seven months til it’s time to be back in the grouse woods….
Rookie Mistakes
Glenn and I went to Kansas last weekend to see first hand the hype of how bad the quail season really is in central Kansas…the heart of gentleman country. While loading my dog box into the bed of Glenn’s nice Ford pickup, I left my tattered ol’ Sharp-tail boots at the side of the Tacoma…rookie…
Colorado Bliss
Choked-bored dogs on cholla-choked grasslands. Gentle breeze from the northeast across the prairie. Day spent alone with bird dogs…point’n coveys of prairie nomads. Birds go’n helter-skelter! Pure Colorado Bliss Setter Feathers…
Scaled Quail in a Gale
Today was the opening of Colorado’s quail and pheasant season. It was a beautiful day on the eastern prairies…minus the 50 mph wind. The dogs performed near flawless…Gary’s Lilly had a great find which was her first point on wild birds. The prairies are dry and it was very evident today…the southeast is parched. …
Coccygeal Muscle Injury: (AKA)Limber Tail Syndrome
I arrived the first afternoon in southeastern Idaho to chase sharp-tailed grouse and gray partridge after an 11 hour white-knuckled drive…I left Colorado at O’dark-30 so that Andy and I could get in a half day’s hunt before heading to our folks home. We were told of a place where our brother Scott and his…
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…
>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…
Upland Ways 