Awesome. We'll have to get together and chase some together. Will your bird fly in a cast? I'll have my 2 females and my female Redtail.
looking for jackrabbits near Garden City
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Awesome. We'll have to get together and chase some together. Will your bird fly in a cast? I'll have my 2 females and my female Redtail.
Good luck with the wife.
I'll be driving on the 12th. Might even be there already if I'm able to leave here sooner than planned. If you can shoot me a PM with your contact info, I can contact you when I get in Kansas.
M. R. Byrd
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I have a friend that has ran a pheasant guide service for probably thirty years and advertises in several hunting magazines. About twenty years ago I was having my lab bred to his male and I was at his lodge and he said, "You are not going to believe this, but I guided a Jack rabbit hunt. I got a call from a guy in New Jersey asking if there were any Jack rabbits out here and I told him I had only seen a few. He kept on asking and wanted to know what I would charge to guide five hunters and I gave him a outrageous get off the phone price and he said, 'Yes'. I made some really good money and even found them some Jacks. Strangest guide I have ever did."
M. R. Byrd
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Speaking of redtails. Years ago my wife and I was in the pasture checking cows when I see a redtail carrying a snake. I tell my wife to look and about that time the hawk starts tumbling out of the sky. I drive over to where it fell and, fortunately, the grass was tall that year and there the hawk lays with a snake coiled around its neck. Usually the snakes there are prairie rattlesnakes, but I recognized the markings to be a bull snake. I took a shovel and poked the snake and he decided to release the grip and slither off in the grass. I figured the hawk was dead, but poked him a couple of times and all of a sudden he rocks up on his feet like one of those old punching clowns I had as a kid. He kept blinking and blinking and was dazed, but finally I must have come into focus and he squawked and flew off. My wife was taking pictures with the 35mm and I have them some where.
Roosterslammer
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Cuda,
She was born this spring and I have not had a chance to try her in a group. I have another guy coming with me who has a Harris so I'll find out soon. We won't be there till the morning of the 17th so we will be there 3 days and then maybe the NAFA meet on the way home for a couple days.
That is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard about the Ol' Predator/ prey relationship turning on its head. I teach science to Middle Schoolers and would LOVE to see those pictures!! I could use them.. anything to increase the next generations interest in the natural world and get em' away from those video games.
M. R. Byrd
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I will have to take a look for them. My old photos from my 35mm days are not in good order. If I can find them I will scan them. I have had a camera with me most times over the course of my life.
I didn't see it happen, but I suspect that the hawk, carrying a big bull snake that it hadn't killed struck at the hawk in flight(it was quite high when I first saw it) and became entangled in the hawk's wing causing it to cartwheel to the earth.
Just a few yards from that spot I once saw a redtail catch a three quarter grown lesser prairie chicken in the air. I wish I had the video of that on tape rather than just the memory stick in my head.
I didn't see it happen, but I suspect that the hawk, carrying a big bull snake that it hadn't killed struck at the hawk in flight(it was quite high when I first saw it) and became entangled in the hawk's wing causing it to cartwheel to the earth.
Just a few yards from that spot I once saw a redtail catch a three quarter grown lesser prairie chicken in the air. I wish I had the video of that on tape rather than just the memory stick in my head.
M. R. Byrd
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tomt-
Found the pictures and scanned two. I will scan more when I have the time.
Found the pictures and scanned two. I will scan more when I have the time.
Who's project is your bird from? I'm flying a 3 year old that I bred, and one of my breeders that is 13. Hopefully we'll all find plenty of game. I'm not gonna make the nafa meet.
M. R. Byrd
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Thanks. Taken Labor Day 1996.
Roosterslammer
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I got my bird from Cheri Heimbach here in PA. I'm not sure where all her breeding birds are from. My first name is Lynn and I'll be driving a red dodge Dakota with red cap and pheasant license plate in the front.
