Smoky sunrise
 

Lot of smoke lately from fires took this the other morning it is raining this morning thank goodness, gary

Gary
Very nice. Here is one from the coast of SC

Here is one from the deserts of Arizona

no pictures but it rained all night here with several tornado s around no damage at my place...its been a long dry spell here but that has ended another funny thing still plenty of green leaves on trees here i have never seen green leaves on trees in december which is tommorrow in my life....charlie

Fellows you know what the best thing about these beautiful photos are? We are still around to see and enjoy such things! Some of you guys up in New England have got to have some early morning snow photos lets see them ! Gary

Snow??? Gary,whats snow?:)

David, it can best be described by a Northener by using several strong cuss words.





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Sunrise from the door at deer/grouse/turkey camp in Vermont's NEK.



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Dean
No snow???
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OK, how about this.... Not sunrise but you get the idea.


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You poor man!
David

I wouldn't have it any other way!





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Oyster River in New Hampshire in Pete Lester's boat on the way to a duck hunt.

lovely sun rise....just a big frost here this morning...charlie

Frank
That i stunning!
David

sunset and sunrise from the cabin this fall in the UP--one of the few days I got in before dark. Got my limit early that day

I experienced a smoky sunrise myself this fall. It was on a sandhill crane hunt in south east Colorado. Unknown to my group that morning, a forest fire had been started about 150 miles to the west of where we were hunting. It made for a spectacular sunrise. It also made for a weird sky the rest of the day with the sun looking hazy.

It didn't effect the crane hunt though. Unfortunately I wasn't shooting a Parker on this one.

Paul, please report on how fantastic they are as table fare.





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I've been told that you shouldn't use a dog with cranes. Understand they will peck a dog's eyes

This was my first experience hunting sandhill crane. After what I experienced, I would never think of using a dog to retrieve them. They are very well equipped to defend themselves. They have that long neck & beak along with the long legs & big feet with serious claws. The few cripples we had would lay on their back with their wings spread along the ground for stability and then use their legs, feet & beak to claw & peck at you. They are quite intimidating to get under control as a cripple.

As a disclaimer; the dog in the picture was just a dog at the farm yard close to where we were hunting. He didn't go afield with us.

As far as table fair goes. So far I'm not real impressed. I think it was the way I prepared them. The way I cooked them, they had a fairly strong liver flavor. I'm going to try other ways to prepare them & I'll let you know my thoughts then.

Now I need to come up with a heavy fowler Parker and work up some non-toxic loads for it. I'll be hunting these again next October.

Though I've never eaten one I've heard they're one of the best-eating birds there is and taste a lot like beef.






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"Ribeye of the sky" is what I've heard