Yesterday I decided to go shed hunting and see if I could locate a few birds. I got about a half an hour into a walk and looked up the trail aways. I coulc see this ole bird sitting on a big ole blowdown catching a midday snooze. It was about 2:30 in the afternoon. When I first saw him he was about 75 yards out. I thought I would put the sneak on him just to see how close I could get. I pulled my cell phone out and started snapping pics each 15 yards or so. Here are the results.
In that last photo I was about 5 feet from him. As you can see he just had his head tucked under his wing snoozing away. I couldn't believe he had chosen a spot so low to the ground as the area is just loaded with yotes and you'd think he'd have sense enough to be a bit higher off the ground.
So at the "click" of the last photo, he absolutely came unglued. He popped his head up and busted outta there like you can't believe. Flapping and squacking making one hell of a racket!!! I tried to snap one more photo but it was just a big blurry mess.
I don't know if grabbing a bird and wringing his neck is a legal kill here in Ohio. On second thought, those spurs would probably ruin a fella's day.
I hope this bird is just as dumb a couple of weeks from now when the season starts!!!
Topic: I put the sneak on a bird yesterday (Read 1310 times)
