Colorado Ptarmigan Hunting

[birddogdoc]

Decided this morning to load up the dogs and go up in the high country to look for white-tailed ptarmigan found about the treeline in Colorado. Cinder found a porcupine at about 11,500 feet in the willows. We worked our way to about 12,021 feet before we started to see sign of ptarmigan. Got up into some high boulder fields when I realized the dogs were on point, but before I could get there the birds got nervous and flushed wild. It’s not easy moving at 12,300 ft...it’s like walking on the moon. Luckily, there we more birds when I got there and they kept coming out of some subalpine stunted fir trees.