Our 1st Robin of the year !

[Richard Flanders]

I can also tell you that even hawk makes a palatable meal. The Mayan indians I had working for me in the jungle in Belize killed everything that moved, which was pretty irritating if it was something they wouldn't eat. One day they shot a hawk so I had my cook make a soup of it for breakfast. The guys wouldn't touch it, of course, but I did and it was tasty enough. The only other thing they wouldn't eat was snakes, not even the meaty 7ft Fer de lance I brought in one day. To them, every snake was poisonous. Other than these anomalies, we pretty much ate everything else that moved - little jungle deer, armadillos, river otter, parrots, McCaw, Gibnut(a nutria clone with chipmunk markings), grouse we took with sling shots and smallish turkey-like birds , wild pigs, you name it. We would have eaten tapir but they were too big since we were on the move daily.

[Wild Skies]

My nominee for the "2018 PGCA Andrew Zimmern Award" goes out to none other than Richard Flanders of Fairbanks, AK for his gut-wrenching accounts of a life well-lived!

Would anyone care to 2nd this nomination?

[Jim DiSpagno]

I second that emotion as the sons goes LOL

[Richard Flanders]

Sometimes it's fun to have experiences in your quiver that require zero embellishment.