Heading North unmolested
 

Return trip may need evasive action. This species is quite adept at that. :)http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/cpg1...Untitled-1.jpg

Nice picture Jack, as always. Really like Pintails but most ducks are pretty.

Here's a familiar fella for many. Could be the overall best looking, favorite hunting duck around. Just an opinion :)
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Here's a double for your SBT (not to be seen on the trip south of course)
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jack those are really good pictures..arnt we the lucky ones that get to see such sights... i really like the old grreen head...do you have a photo of a red head..only seen one in my life not to many of them in north miss... charlie

You bet we are lucky. The sights we see and can appreciate with or without a shootin' iron in hand. I may or may not have redhead or canvas back. Don't see them too often. Did see a redhead this week but didn't have the camera and he was at least 200 yards out sitting on water. Heard the unmistakable call of a flock of sandhill cranes yesterday. They were a mile high. They must fly twice the distance of the others as they continually circle their way north (and south for that matter). I wonder what they think they missed seeing the first time by?
Cheers,
Jack
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Thank you for sharing. The spring is always enjoyable as waterfowl follow the ice lines north.

Nice pics Jack. Good to see you back in the fold so to speak. I was begining to think you were abusing Moms talents with the new Mix Master...to many chocolate chip cookies will slow you down:whistle:

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I'll see your cookies and raise you a ......
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As the migration unfolds, today was soul satisfying. Headed out with the pups, no gun or camera - just to watch and quietly let it all sink into and blend into the collage of migrations past. CHARLIE and KYRA were focused on their newest game, much to the detriment of the mouse population. I just watched the sky, until the reflected spectral symphony of a prairie sunset filled the runoff wetlands with a radiance unknown to the fluorescent lit mall walkers. It was a glorious evening. Mallards and pintails, canvasbacks and red heads, Canada's of course and a score of swans swimming majestically on a temporary lake. A great blue heron winged by - likely the only local returning resident. The call of the snows became almost thunderous, as a gazillion or two dropped in for an evening meal. We do have a spring season but I never hear shooting - maybe I've grown more deaf than I know. I hope some of you have such days in your memory banks.
Cheers,
Jack

Nothing like you have Jack. Here on the Shawsheen Flats we have had Canadas serenading us to sleep and waking us in the morning (somewhat earlier than we would like) ever since ice-out and many of them are resident birds. Several species of ducks stop by for a few brief days but never in great numbers. For the last six or seven years two or three pairs of Mute Swans stay for a few weeks but eventually move on. It's nice to watch but not awe-inspiring like you all have in the plains.

Lemon Merang (?sp) pie is hard to beat. Just polished off the last of the Ruhbarb the wife made.

Dad in your honor and that of the Boswell I have purchased a Claybaugh (London) 12 bore hammer gun. Shes sound of body with 30 inch fine damascuss choked IC/M. She's a lot lighter than my Grade 3 two frame Parker:shock:

A little more study for that spelling bee next week, "Son". Made a mistake with rhubarb when Mom was a young bride. She knew how much I liked rhubarb pie so made me two one day. I ate the first one in usual young man style. I ate half the second one the next day and left the other half in the fridge for a bit too long. Mom asked why it was still there and I made the mistake of my life when it comes to pies. Nobody with life experience was there to give me a kick or explain how important the answer would be. I simply said, it doesn't quite taste like grandma's rhubarb pie - which was true but not that big a deal, unless you are a young bride who believes her "man" hates her baking. End result - not a single rhubarb pie for me for forty years and counting. Oh Mom will bake, but rhubarb remains a reminder of how one must very carefully assess a question from our better halves. I can't even trade her one of my lemon pies for a rhubarb baked by her. I'll assess whether or not to mention more shotguns in the "extended" family. I think I need to build the brownie point bank for a bit. Enjoy the Claybaugh.

I went a little early for the dog hike today. The gazillion snows are now a bazillion. Actually saw three young guys heading into a field to try their luck. They would be attempting to take a few after lift-off from the temporary lakes. I think I would set up where they go for dinner rather than hope for some pass shooting; however, with a bazillion birds, I imagine they did okay.

Cheers
Jack

Back in the old days before Canada went to non toxic shot a group of us went to Manitoba for two weeks of Waterfowl and upland birds. We started off in the Pas for ducks then down to Oak Lake for geese. The number of Snows and Blue Geese along with a few Ross was spectacular to say the least. You could hear the birds comeing off Oak Lake for 20 min before you saw them.

The wife makes a good rhubarb pie...not quite up to my Moms but thats a secret I'll keep:)

Wish I could of ate a piece of you mothers pie Richard I like good rubarb pie with some homemade vinalla ice cream. best ch

My mother would make pies from what we grew in our garden and we had a good size rhubarb patch, a quarter acre of strawberries and ten high bush blueberry bushes. Her pies were "to die for" and she would bake strawberry-rhubarb or blueberry-rhubarb pies all the time. We had lots of apple trees, pear trees, peach trees, corn, beans, squash, etc. so we ate very well and liked what we ate, thanks to Mom.

My Mom makes a banana pie thats A1 special. n chocolate, pecan, pumpkin, custard, she wone the pie comtest at the fair. But bluebarrie rubarb i'm wiping the slobers off my chin!!! I love garden squash gonna grow me some. Don't suppose u got your moms recipe foe that BB rubarb pie Dean?

Guy's, you notice a all this talk is about "Mom's" pies and not your wifes.....:shock: Hey JD you might want to close this thread before alot of people get in trouble....:rotf:

Kathy needs no introduction... her cookies reputation preceeds her in certain circles :cool:

Still treading on "thin ice"

jacks wife never ever baked him that rubarb pie after him telling how good moms was...as has been said you fellas treadinyin deep water..... charlie

Charlie: Yep, some things last a lifetime. I make a rhubarb/apple/banana/pecan/raisin/prune/cinnamon/nutmeg/oatmeal crisp that "Mom" and I and others quite enjoy. I make a few different pies but I have yet to attempt a rhubarb pie for the good natured ridicule it will bring when I have to admit it didn't compare to the previous generation's fare. Oh well, I tip the scales way more than I should anyway. Hmmmm...... I wonder if sour grapes make a decent pie. :)

Cheers,
Jack

Kathy's chocolate chip cookies are legendary! Some people will even steal them..just to indulge their own taste bud's in the comfort of their car on the way home from a certain shoot in PA.......:rolleyes: Just to let them know I have not forgotten this act of thivery....retribution will be sweet I assure you....:whistle:

Jack - I'll bet that pie was more tender than the shoe sole I have injested on occasion

would you dare tell who cooked that shoesole.... charlie

I've put my foot in my mouth more times than I want to remember. Self-inflicted wound.

None better than my wifes custard pie. I injest my foot quite often as well.

fellas ive gained 10 lbs just reading this..mite be a good thing we live so far apart from one another cause id probably break the scales eating all those good pies...id give all the wives a blue ribbon and one for you jack...if it were possible.... charlie

Eric I did mention Audrey's excellent rubarb pie, I notice there are no kudo's to Vicky's baked goods:whistle:

Cathy Romigs (AKA Thelma)cookies are excellent fare. I have been blessed with consuming one ot two on occasion:bowdown:

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Purloined bags????:vconfused: Are you learning Chinese at work now?

Well we do not have rubarb here that I know of so we have to settle on sweet potato pie, pecan pie, and an old favorite chess pie.

Gary: Okay, I'm fairly far north to take on a southern pie, but, what the heck. I have eggs, butter, sugar, flour as starters. I have heard of vinegar, lemon juice, buttermilk and vanilla but have no idea of proportions or of any other "grandma" secrets. If you can pass along a recipe for that chess pie, I'll give it a go. How does it come by its name?
Cheers,
Jack

Richard: Pretty sure he must have meant "pearl lined" bags because those cookies are real gems I hear.

Reminder: Father's day is fast approaching.

Cheers,
"Dad"

Mm-mmm... Kathy just baked a fresh batch of cookies yesterday. Too bad I have nobody to share them with...

Dean, You have my address.....:rolleyes:

Sorry Dave... I never thought of (urrp) that. They're all gone now but maybe next time :D

Damn.....:banghead:

All this sweet talkin' put me into the kitchen with a bag of lemons and some other fixin's. Lookin' tasty enuf to share but then nobody ever comes this way so it's up to Kay and me to demolish this one.
Cheers,
Jack

jack that just put my taste buds to working had to go get me a banana pop cikle to calm me down...thats a great looking pie if id abeen in your neighbor hood ida stoped in for a slice or two.... charlie