Today was the last day of the early chicken season(eastern Kansas) and I wanted to go so badly. There has been a week of drizzle and socked in weather, but today was bluebird all the way. I had committed to a job in Ness County(sixty miles north of Dodge). All the way to the job, I keep thinking, "I really should be hunting chicken today." Then it happens a flock of thirty lesser prairie chicken fly right in front of us going from a feed field to grass. Chicken season was not open in Ness County, but it sure was good to see those birds. I have a goal to shoot a nice LPC this year for a mount.
Saw a nice flock of sand hill cranes in the air. I want to take one of them this year. It would be my first. I have never eaten one, but those that have refer to them as "ribeye in the sky".
The CRP grass has made the prairie a more healthy place to be, especially for the lesser prairie chicken, a fact that I have passed on to USDA.
Five weeks until I can hunt some LPC ---- can hardly wait.
Maynard & Murry