SoDak Gentle Breezes and Refreshing Snow

[Bruce Day]

Still on a Lakota Reservation. The people could not be nicer , I had a free sirloin steak dinner tonight as a veteran and wearing an Air Force Vietnam hat many came by to shake my hand. To those unfamiliar with the Lakota , many are big people , men well over 6 feet tall and muscular. Many upwards of 6 1/2 feet tall.

So about 32 degrees today, cloudy and wind out of the northwest. Cold. The birds are in the shelterbelts and cattails. The dogs have to dive in and rout them out. Tough tough hunting but all wild birds it’s late season and it’s not supposed to be easy.

1. Dick Dow , Missouri River in distance.

2. My pointer Bert

3. Corn and grass

4. Me and Bert

5. Me, Bert and Fielder. Fielder is 15 months old , her second full season on wild birds and she is getting it figured out. Bert runs to flank a running bird and drive it back to me. This rooster came out of the cattails. I sent in both dogs to drive the birds out and then you just hunker down so that a flushed bird doesn’t see you and you get a shot. You can’t see the dogs in there , the stuff is 5-6 foot tall, full of ice and muck in there.