Chris's Blog – October 2011 Archive (1)

After a decade of staying out of the woods, Adam decided he wanted to take to the Grouse and Woodcock coverts of his Grandfathers acreage. So, on the second Saturday we headed west in hopes the Timberdoodle flight birds would be in. Well, a rare occurrence -- actually a couple -- were in order. We started bumping Grouse instead.

Adam was impressed by the speed these birds got up, got out, and got on with it. I had warned him we'd likely have no luck with them, as Rida hasn't…