The weather has been just perfect, bad weather- wind, snow, etc on the days that we don't hunt, then nice when we do. I like it! Quite unusual however.
Connie was supposed to have been here yesterday, but she wasn't able to make it yesterday, so Hope and I went hawking by ourselves.
The morning was nice and clear and the Steen's were glowing.
I had decided to go to Arock to see if any of the local Jacks had moved into the area. It is Lava and Sage and near to some alfalfa fields, so it generally holds more Jacks that any place around.
I had asked Sue, the lady that found Jessie's body, if she wanted to go hawking with us, and she readily agreed. Sue was also going to share our Thanksgiving meal later in the day as well.
From the tracks in the small amount of snow on the ground, the population looked quite promising. There were lots of Jacks, but all of them were as wild as "March Hares" even in November, so all the slips we were getting were all long range. We also put up quite a few bunnies, generally when she was somewhere else, and she got very few good chances to score.
We had covered parts of two fields in our quest to get a decent slip. She had crashed into many bushes, towered up as high as she could all to no avail, Then one of them finally screwed up and didn't get enough bush in between it and her. It was also the only close slip that we got. No time to plan, and she was too fast for it.
The older more muscular ones are hard to kill. I try to stretch them enough to break their necks, as its less likely to break the Hawks toes or legs. This poor guy had to endure several attempts.
We walked 3.4 miles total, and I lost track of how many Rabbits we saw. We also jumped three coveys of Hungarian Partridge in our travels.---Turkey time!
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