Andrew, using my former Grant, has a great day in the field. “It’s taken dumber birds already, but the Grant got its first wild birds today — and in style, limiting out on sharptail on our first day out. “It was a rough day with winds gusting well over 20mph. Despite being on private land …
Tag: Bird Dogs
Hunt & Doggish News
Not a dove on the plateau here— though major elk season is started. But Daniel Riviera is coming down through Montana after training in ND… With Bailey & ancient hammer Purdey, a happy man… (Last photo by Katherine) And though it is still hot in Alpaugh, it is almost time to run. John Burchard still …
Very Good Dog!
One breed I no longer have but continue to love is the field English springer. Here is a photo of Jerry Scoville’s little Springer Skookum last season, who has retrieved way more than his weight in geese. He is no Chessie– he weighs around 28 pounds, like Taik. Says Jerry: “He slept for ~30 hours …
Dog Quote
“Dogs are like people. Not too literally, of course, but in the sense that the dog population contains a virtually infinite range of individuals – distinctive in physical structure, temperament and past experience. As a group, they are more loyal, more forgiving, more generous, yet less neurotic than people. Our relationship with each of them …
Christmas with Dogs Plus: Daniel
D and his team are returned from the High Plains to the wine country. My big computer is down for repair; our own Christmas stuff plus a whole lot of book reviews will return through the weekend…
Pointing Dogs
There are breeds other than tazis that I love, and places other than New Mexico. Daniel Riviera’s team is on the Northern Plains.
Upland season
Reader and friend Kirk Hogan from Wisconsin evokes the essence of a northern upland season in a few terse sentences… 14 – hours hunted in 2 days (losing light) 8 – small Brittanies, 3 probably from Herve’s original lines 43 – flushes per 5 minute rule (5 minutes between flushes, so probably not re-flushes of …
Heidi Brown, 1999- 2012
George Calef’s great old Labrador Heidi Brown, who was based in Whitehorse in the Yukon but hunted all over North America, has died at thirteen. She probably hunted more species than any other living dog; here are some thoughts from George. “Heidi Brown passed away early this morning in the cabin she loved, and knew …
“Some good “Doggie” news !”
…writes John Hill, “Johnny UK” of Norfolk: an anecdotal antidote to the gloom in the post below. “It was the Finals Day at the Wildfowlers Gundog Training classes yesterday… June decided to come as well, as she had been to a few classes, and wanted to see how Poppy competed… We all registered,and were all …
Jean Craighead George and Jim Marti: RIP
Old friends and heroes are dying faster than I can write about them. Jean Craighead George, author of one of my favorite childhood books*, My Side of the Mountain, and sister to the even better- known conservationists and falconers , the twin brothers Frank and John, died last week at 92. NYT here , Wiki …