I got mallards under my bird feeder. We had the female yesterday, today she brought her boyfriend.
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I got mallards under my bird feeder. We had the female yesterday, today she brought her boyfriend.
Got the trailer back, and the money for it :~) They did a fine job... not factory perfect, but a nice repair.
Oh, he is a beautiful dog. Congratulations :)
Global warming? :)
Heh... must be. :~)
Looks like it is finally going to warm up a bit. Rain though.
Aw Ducks!
"No, no, Bad Shelley. No hunting over a baited field!"
I can't get over how every hair is perfect . . . < sigh >
So are they wild? How cool:)
So did the guy from the store say/react anyway about the money for the trailer, or just pay up?
Overcast, chilly, and dreary here today. Waiting on the farrier. He had to cancel Mon. because of weather.
Good morning.
Becky
So does your dog hunt live ducks? I thought the kind of dogs you have just retrieved dead one, I didn’t realize they “hunted” other then to point.
Becky
Oftentimes, btw, the ducks are still alive when the dog gets up to them . . . in fact at the last AKC hunt test we entered, we had some lousy gunners in the Junior blind -- they just winged my dog's duck and she was still very much alive, kicking, and indignant when my dog brought her back to the line. My dog doesn't care -- in fact when the Finished dogs were training upland a couple of months ago, they had a "flyaway" - a partridge that the gunners missed that then flew back over the gallery. My dog locked on it and started whining, so I said 'what the heck', slipped her lead and told her 'go get it girl.' She chased that partridge about a quarter mile downhill, flushing it every hundred yards or so. The bird wore out before she did, so she grabbed it and brought it back.
Shelley with the bird she got by her own unaided efforts.
Funny story from that same hunt test, same Junior test . . . right in front of us in the running order was a HUGE big chocolate male named Porter. Porter is a moose - he must weigh 100 pounds. Well, the gunners completely missed his bird, a large hen mallard. She was in the fall zone strolling up and down and quacking when Porter got up to her. She turned around, flapped her wings, and pecked him right on the nose! Porter hit the brakes and ran all the way back to the line and hid behind his handler, "Hey, man, this was NOT in the contract!"
He got another run. Also, the judges went out and spoke to the gunners. The next duck that flew out got shot three times, plus (after a slight pause) once while it was on the ground just to make sure. Pretty funny for everybody but the duck!
He just paid up.... didn’t say a lot about it... although he came the closest to apologizing I’ve seen, saying he had just been in a big hurry that day.
Today was really strange, I just came back from buying smokes, and I usually try to small talk with him, wanted to make sure I smiled and was friendly to him, ‘no hard feelings’ you know? Well, he smiles and chit chats then grabs a local paper and points to the picture of the Va Tech shooter and says “Did you hear... that shooter, he’s Korean! Messed up, angry, Korean.” Well yeah, I’d heard that. How am I supposed to respond to that? I said “Yeah - it’s really bad news... a really bad scene.”. That was awkward. Gotta go now.... see ya!
On the ducks... they’re really wild ducks, were too skittish to even come up within range when I was tossing bread out... so, I don’t even think they’re park ducks.
My friend Bob tells the story frequently of an injured but live goose who nearly drowned his lab. He had tried to call the dog back so he could shoot it again, but the dog bolted - too excited to stay put when he saw it go down in a pond. So the dog was in the way, not much he could do about it. And Canadian geese are big! Maybe 20 pounds... so Buck is trying to bring this thing back and it’s beating him around the face and neck with it’s wings and pecking at his eyes, and pushing him under!
It was a bad scene... he brought it back, but hunting is not always as clean and pretty as it is in old oil paintings ;~)
Oh, ok...learn something new every day. I never thought about them maybe not being dead from the shot. Makes sense.
That is a funny story about the dog that got pecked..LOL.
Becky
OO...that does sound awkward.
Well I’m glad he paid up without a hitch.
Becky
Is he Korean?
A friend of mine's dog who's not much bigger than Shelley (around 55 pounds, Shelley's 43) wrestled a winged Canada to a complete standstill. She's a sweet, sweet little black girl, but she was VICIOUS. She jumped over the bird, got behind it, got it behind the head, and basically twisted its head off.
Of course, she was on dry land. In the water it might have been another story.
I think the lady dogs are more aggressive with the wounded birds -- at least all the ones I've seen just bore right in and don't quit til they've subdued it.
I always face that same dilemma every year too. What I do is to start some marigold seeds in a bunch of spare pots and then transplant them when I pull the pansies up sometime in May. You can pull a full-grown marigold out of the ground and plant it somewhere else and it'll do fine. They're virtually indestructable. If I want anything else in there, I just go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get something that's already pretty good sized. So I guess you could say that I cheat. What I've thought about doing is starting a full blown "transplant gargen" somewhere else, kinda out of sight, and use it to get stuff started so that I can move it to the patio garden later.
Hey, I don’t think going to a store and buying stuff started is cheating:) I didn’t realize the pansies would be done by May, I thought they lasted longer. I’ve pulled a few up, to put a few things back in. Of course I have to hope that Lowes will still have some good stuff by May...The freeze around here seems to have wiped even the flowers in the stores out. Pretty slim pickens right now. I actually saw azealeas on sell yesterday for $1.59 for a galleon size bush....of course the bushes looked really sick. The tops of them had freeze damage. I don’t know if you could get them healthy. I’ve trid them before with no luck, so even at the price I passed.
Some of the New Guinea Impatients I put is was damaged, I’m going to replace with just regular impatients, but haven’t been able to find any.
Becky
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