August 2009 Updates page 16
28 August
Last fall, John and I went out the opening week of quail season and then John took our son Josh out during Thanksgiving. On the first trip, we ran into several fields of standing crops. By the time John and Josh returned, the crops were cut and the hunting was much more productive. Josh was actually able to get a limit on pheasants on just his second trip out...
Thank you Karen, a good reminder about the early season.
31 August
How it was and we all know we will see it again.
An ice frost morning already warming and we continued on knowing full well the melting ice crystals would soon soak us regardless of the calendar telling us it was winter and snow covering the ground.
From early this spring.
Quail
Good coveys numbers are being reported and found while on land runs. Running a little later than average are the juvenile coveys seen mostly in July are continuing to be observed as late as this past weekend.
Dogs and Scenting
"...showed that dogs' already amazingly keen sense of smell - which, scientists say, is up to 10 million times more sensitive than humans' - is even more finely tuned and intense when the highly saturated coconut oil found in most commercial dog foods is replaced by highly unsaturated corn oil..."
See: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/adm/comm/news/2003/bombdogs.php