First day of fall - no dog, different venue, with pigs

-

 I got out early today it's been quiet. The Coulsons wrote in their Harris's Hawk, "Once the leaves fall, and the northern Red-tailed Hawks migrate down, gray squirrels are less likely to be far from their safe havens and more likely to be bedded down in their nests during the day." Who knows? I'll move from woods to woods until my main spot picks up again.

The weather was nice, and I got there after dawn, about 0730. Cisco did have a chase in some super heavy cover. This is my west woods. Lot's of cover plus pigs. I heard them today, which is why Arnold stayed home. Cisco was certainly not fired up. He could have followed, usually not a good thing while squirrel hunting, but it would have helped today.





 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

On the ragged edge...

-
Image
The season may be over. I'm keeping the hawks at hunting weight, but we are quickly moving into the heat. I took Farrah out today - she chased a couple of out-of-season Mallards on two flights, and attacked some quail on the ground which buzzed off with no pursuit. This sounds better than it was.   This is what Harris's do....
Read more

Superb effort from Cisco

-
Image
Cisco was on the disabled list for a few weeks, after a squirrel chewed on his toe a while back. The day before yesterday I took him hunting. My reference to the hunt in my log book was "Boh-ring!" He was an ounce heavy and it was warm. Today was different. Cisco was at 900 grams after two day fast; the weather was cool, also extremely windy. Cisco is very dependable in the wind, and though sometimes it affects the squirrels, I am not overly concerned about it. Cisco was spot-on. He made a perfunctory swoop at a fox squirrel, then quickly found a cat squirrel. A steady pursuit followed, including one interesting flight. The squirrel was at the top of a tall tree. Cisco flew upwind and used the wind as an elevator to put him very high in the same tree. He took a huge arc out, swung back and landed perfectly. A few minutes later he was on the ground with a squirrel. Arnold was there, worked well, and had fun. This is the last squirrel of the season. I clipped Farrah's talon
Read more