rooster pheasant in snow
Photo by J. Harrington
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For the record, it's also way too warm to enjoy busting brush for ruffed grouse, unless you're trying for heat stroke. I've done it (hunted grouse in warm weather, not had a heat stroke) and swore each time to never do it again. I wonder if or when climate change will cause the Department of Natural Resources to consider changing season opening dates. I seem to recall warm weather has already had some effect on ice fishing seasons although I don't recall the details. I'm as ardent about ice fishing as I am about pheasant hunting and suburban developments that wipe out habitat.
The Golden Years
All I do these drawn-out days is sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge where there are no pheasants to be seen and last time I looked, no ridge. I could drive over to Quail Falls and spend the day there playing bridge, but the lack of a falls and the absence of quail would only remind me of Pheasant Ridge. I know a widow at Fox Run and another with a condo at Smokey Ledge. One of them smokes, and neither can run, so I’ll stick to the pledge I made to Midge. Who frightened the fox and bulldozed the ledge? I ask in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge.
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