On the Hunt
Filed In: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for......
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Experience, Lodge, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Bird Camp is an eagerly anticipated annual pilgrimage, now in its ninth year. The players have remained the same, except for Brian Fay (the Counselor), who dropped out after the......
Filed In: Experience, Habitat, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
There are times every bird season when I sneak out on my own to enjoy the woods Robert Frost called “lovely, dark and deep.” These are special days when time......
Filed In: Culture, hunting, Memories, On the Hunt, Personalities, The Sporting Life
The last Friday of September, after weeks of preparation and packing, the Burb and the late-1960s vintage and timeworn Bell travel trailer known as the Road Abode were ready for......
Filed In: Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
At the top of the field, a farmer was baling his final cut of hay for the season. The sweet smell of cut and drying hay filled the hot, humid......
Filed In: Gamebird, Hunt, Hunter, On the Hunt, Shooting, Sporting, The Sporting Life, Upland
I love a fast-and-furious day of hunting Hungarian partridge, but there are times when a desire comes to travel through shrub grasslands in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain range......
Filed In: Bird, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
There is a rough stone wall at the bottom of the Blackmer place in Massachusetts that runs north to south along the forest edge. In New England fashion, it is......
Filed In: Bird, Hunt, On the Hunt, Pheasant, The Sporting Life
For several years, I helped out on a hunting preserve that offered several species of gamebirds, including pheasants. Depending on the time of year, the pens held anywhere from 200......
Filed In: Bird, Conservation, Dog, Habitat, On the Hunt, People, The Sporting Life
Herbert Stoddard, author of The Bobwhite Quail: its Habits, Preservation, and Increase, wrote in the 1950s: “The bobwhite might probably be called the Fire Bird.” If ever there was a......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Again I travel east, over a blue highway passing through big, open grasslands that stretch for miles. To my left, the mixed grass prairie extends north through much of the......
