Monday, September 14, 2009

Dove Hunt 9/13/09

Sunday afternoon hunt after watching the Cowboy's game at Dustin's. Great afternoon ending up with 38 birds, white wing, mourning, and a few ringnecks(collared).
First hunt for Arte since Kody's not around. I have never worked her with birds so I did not know what to expect. She did okay but did not want to retrieve the dove and was a little gun shy. By the end of the day, she was at least mouthing and playing with the birds although not retrieving them back to me. She just needs some work and maybe some ducks. Memphis and Gabby were with us to help show Arte the way.


Labor Day Weekend

Spent a couple days filling and repairing feeders. Everything always needs something. One of the feeders had a plastic lid which was destroyed by squirrels and allowed water to leak inside and rot and ferment the corn which destoys the feeder motor and timer. New batteries, corn, weedeating, etc. for the others.

Planted some pearl millet on the wet side of the hill at Delrose and the beaver pond at midway. Put in some small food plots with a blend from East Texas Seed Co. It always takes longer than expected to disc, drag, and throw seed, but should pay off since we got good rain within the next 7-10 days. Back in SA now, I have millet growing in the back of my truck! Hopefully things will be easier (just filling feeders and doing final adjustments for the season) next trip.
Only in East Texas... A fourwheeler at the gas station!!!