Thursday, August 20, 2009

Thusday, August 20, 2009.

A light rain during the night and Ken stayed in Omaha with the dog. See above.

Roading:

· Midge, Hank, Shauna & Brenna – 51 min.

· Lily, Sorrel, Brie & Inde – 4? Watch stopped and time was an estimate.

Hills:

· Robin & Erin - 10 x up and down with Robin and Stan a bit more tense. He's making progress even if he doesn't know it. No birds for Robin. Erin – huge running dog, handled more for himself then Ed - a bit of a handful and tested Ed to the limits. On the way back, Robin pointed and Stan tried to relocate but she had his 2 leather gloves (lost for 2 days) pointed nicely. Erin didn't want to leave the windmill pond to the south. Finally got him back and went to camp. 40 min.

· Bandit & Annie – Bandit on the IR list @ 4 min. Annie out for 35 min. Annie found a sharptail, pointed and chased then had a turtle find and nothing good from that. 35 min. for Annie.

· Galt & Tequi – Galt ran huge and handled – always front – responded as desired. Meadows all the way – no birds. Tequi got corrected early for tagging and went on and hunted to the front. Tequi had a flash point and find on the island and that got her going. It appeared that Galt saw the birds leave and helped with chase. Stan lost the gloves that Robin found and finally Tequi found them and brought them back to camp for him after washing them in a couple of ponds. 45 min.

Thursday afternoon, Ed & Stan activated the johnie house on the south meadow with about a dozen chukar. We needed to get these moving so now we have 2 johnie houses and Huns using the Bird House. We see the huns on the road occasionally & the quail call back just fine. Huns have been bird work birds because their just great flyers right out of the box. We had the tamale dinner Ed brought – awesome tamales – rival the San Antonio ones Bob and I used to get on business trips. Robin found them years ago for us and we've missed having them. Great tamales!!!!!