Like many have cited here, my hints at the coming season are subtle, but important nonetheless.
Weather fronts are more frequent and dramatic (sometimes pushing the dove out before the season, but ushering in early season teal).
The dove fields have matured and need scouting on cool mornings.
Goldenrod begins to show its yellow glory.
The morning star (actually, Venus) begins to rise just before the sun on my morning walks.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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