Last Day of the Wild bird season
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:56 am
Last day of the season. My hip has been killing me so I am trying to let it rest. I was going to watch the football play off games and use my heat pad. Went outside to feed my pigeons and found it was a beautiful day. My Brittany was dancing around in anticipation. I thought, to heck with the pain. She deserved some feathers in her mouth. Put on her collars , got my 20 ga and jumped on my quad. About a mile down the road she cut into the desert. Hunting at a range of about 300 yards I watched her run. Lost her for a while and stopped to look at the gps. She was moving slow about 250 yards to the west. I headed that way. Sure enough she was creeping around. Then she locked up. got off my quad and shot the bird for her. She stood till the bird tumbled. Perfect retrieve. Next bird I was taking her picture when the bird flushed. She gave me that look. The birds were holding tight in knee high brush. She pointed 3 more singles for me to shoot for her over the next 15 minutes. As these are the covey I train on, I let her point a few more and only took pictures then told her to kennel up and we headed home. She had enough. She had 5.5 miles on her Garmin. She is in her bed now and I am back on my heating pad. A good dog is just to precious to waste. Good Lord willing there will be a next year and maybe I will have some more bionic parts to help me along.
