A Bird Hunter's Thoughts

Digging Holes   If you have bird dogs, many or just one, eventually time will run out.  It’s a sad fact that from a tiny puppy to digging a ...

Snakes   “Cheh... Cheh………Cheh.”     “That’s a weird bird noise,” I thought to myself.  Cheh..Cheh..Cheh, Cheh.   “It must be some sort of Pr...

Chukar   “So, down this hill is a bench.  Along that bench, there is usually a covey of Chukar. Once we get down there, we can walk along th...

Friends   One beautiful Fall day I was working with my dogs along the Snake River in Idaho.  When I could find access to public land, I woul...

Looking Ahead   I took a phone call the other day from a bird hunting friend out in Arizona.   He and his wife were traveling to Dallas, fro...

The Doldrums   I don’t have any use for summer.  Except for an hour after sunrise, it’s too hot and humid to train dogs.  The pasture grass ...

Baron Some pretty good dogs I have known   By Scott Linden   I am the luckiest guy on the planet. I get to hang around bird dogs. Some are m...

  It’s the eternal problem of bird hunters all over the country from September to February.  Not only can you not expect good roads, you sho...

Jade (JD) 10 mos.    JD and me- AZ Desert Maybe it's just me, but puppies seem to be getting smarter.  OR, I suppose I'm not. This l...

I came across this picture of my Brit, Cap, from NM 4 years ago. We were hunting Gambel’s Quail around an old corral. The initial cast was a...

  The Book When I was growing up, my father would regale me with stories of coon hunting in the swamps of southern Mississippi.  He would te...

Blue injured his right rear leg after a run about a month ago.  The vet diagnosed CCL tear (equivalent to an ACL tear in humans).   I am a h...

    The old dog and I put out on a day that was cool, as the sun was about an hour above the Montana horizon.  This was a special spot.  Las...