I have so many favorites I wouldn't even know where to start. I've written about some of them and Austin published them in Parker Pages years ago. I have accumulated many more since those. One that comes immediately to mind is one of the first times I took my grandson Cameron to grouse camp with me. I knocked down a nice grouse and he hit the ground running pretty close to Cam. I hollered "Grab him Cam!" and Cam gave chase and dived at the grouse coming up with only a handful of tail feathers and a surprised look on his face. I put my Parker down and sprinted (funny picture there) after the bird and finally grabbed him by the body this time. We had lots of laughs over that one and it is still a favorite story at grouse camp.
In the second picture that white spot is the skin of the bird's tail where the feathers used to be 
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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