Re: Annual Alaska Moose trip
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:07 pm
We identified the bird yesterday from Chris's bird book and it is a Northern Harrier. The book said they were unusual to see in the interior like this but we are both sure that is what it was.
We spent the day down at Portage shooting ducks and are going again next Wednesday. Actually Chris did the hitting and I just filled the air with steel shot but had a ball anyway. He got four Gadwalls and gave them to me. We dressed them out , skinned and rinsed the little guys that look a bit bigger than a game hen.
I'm looking forward to eating them and going down to try again next week. This is a great spot as it is a natural choke point for water foul that gather up and make a run through the pass over to Whittier and down the channel to Prince William Sound, when the weather clears for a bit. We hope to intersect the Canadians when they head down and over the pass one of these times.
Chris found a perfect spot on a little peninsula covered over with alder brush almost to the water line. We have to canoe into the area and with the surrounding panorama of mountain scape it is a true joy to set comfortably in our blind on dry ground and await the passing water foul.
We also saw some Trumpeter Swans fly by and looked like B-17s compared to the Gadwalls and Mallards we were seeing.
I only shot three times but think I was leading them to much as I noticed one drop his bill down just after I shot and think I pecked him on the beak with the tail end of my shot string.
I need to go shoot some skeet and get back in shot gun trim again as it has been nearly 20 years since I have hunted water foul and finding a new friend that likes to hunt them with me is a blessing.
He says he feels fine now and has had no more attacks of vertigo that fell him on our moose trip. MD
We spent the day down at Portage shooting ducks and are going again next Wednesday. Actually Chris did the hitting and I just filled the air with steel shot but had a ball anyway. He got four Gadwalls and gave them to me. We dressed them out , skinned and rinsed the little guys that look a bit bigger than a game hen.
I'm looking forward to eating them and going down to try again next week. This is a great spot as it is a natural choke point for water foul that gather up and make a run through the pass over to Whittier and down the channel to Prince William Sound, when the weather clears for a bit. We hope to intersect the Canadians when they head down and over the pass one of these times.
Chris found a perfect spot on a little peninsula covered over with alder brush almost to the water line. We have to canoe into the area and with the surrounding panorama of mountain scape it is a true joy to set comfortably in our blind on dry ground and await the passing water foul.
We also saw some Trumpeter Swans fly by and looked like B-17s compared to the Gadwalls and Mallards we were seeing.
I only shot three times but think I was leading them to much as I noticed one drop his bill down just after I shot and think I pecked him on the beak with the tail end of my shot string.
I need to go shoot some skeet and get back in shot gun trim again as it has been nearly 20 years since I have hunted water foul and finding a new friend that likes to hunt them with me is a blessing.
He says he feels fine now and has had no more attacks of vertigo that fell him on our moose trip. MD