I Missed Duck Hunting
Despite getting up in the middle of the night ,donning gear that transformed me into a wierd camo Michelin man creature and the worst....... having to remain quiet and STILL for long periods of time , I admit I missed duck hunting this season. I’m Susan Allen stay tuned for Open Range. There’s a magic moment in the duck blind when the night gives way to dawn, and your sitting sitting to your stoic dog scanning together the horizon for patterns. We lost our wire hair Chaps last year and with her went passion for bird hunting. It’s simply not the same without your own dog yet something was missing this winter without any waterfowl adventures. Duck hunting ended last week and judging from the birds in both of my son’s freezers the hunters in Eastern Oregon and Washington fared well. In fact nationally, over thirteen point seven million ducks were harvested according to preliminary estimates and the numbers were actually down from over fourteen and a half million the previous season. Despite the fact it seems Canadian geese’s are every where, 120,000 more were shot this season with total kill numbers closing in on four million. Is it time to get a pup? am I ready to have my world rocked by a puppy? I don’t know, but the future for ducks in the Northwest looks pretty darn good. The 2009 Waterfowl Breeding Population Survey estimates forty-two million total ducks up thirteen percent from last years numbers. Okay email me at aginfo.net if you know of a good litter of German Wirehairs. I’m Susan Allen
