Sunday May 14, 2006

Happy Mother's Day! That goes out to all the hens in the world. All we saw today was one hen. We opted to start out in a different part of the property in H-town today, just to see if we missed something yesterday morning. We setup in a hedgerow where I called three jakes into my Dad last year, and very close to where I called in three longbeards and a jake to Bill a few years ago. Sunrise came and nothing happened. I decided to sit tight, because it was a good place to intercept a traveling bird. Well, suddenly I caught movement out of the corner of my eye, just after a series of calls. The bird appeared out of nowhere across the field to the North and looked like it was quartering towards me. I got excited, but wasn't going to get all shook up for a hen, and I put the glasses on her and sure enough....no beard, brown, fuzzy blue head, hen! I tried so hard to put a beard on that bird, but couldn't. An out of place feather would have sufficed at that point. Anything to make it worth calling to. I called anyway, hoping her counterpart was right behind her, but no such luck. She actually had a nest in the field and circled it a few times and then sat on it. We backed out and tried the corner where we started yesterday, with no answers. We left. I had to pick up a gift for Mother's Day, and we were close to the stores, so that's what I did and the hunting was over for the weekend. I did see three jakes picking gravel at the end of a driveway along Whitney Rd. in Penfield! A damn suburban neighborhood!