Karen and I got out of the house as the sun was rising, a nice clear, crisp morning. The temps. at the house was 67 and when we got to Danner, the temp. was 53.

Peg was at 732 grams this morning and apparently it is just a bit too high. She tried, but just seemed to be a bit too slow and didn't make those kamikazi strikes needed to connect. She of course knows where the rabbits go to hide and is getting so that she doesn't pass up a hole without looking down it and wanting to examine it more closely. In fact it is becoming a bit of a problem.

I had to call her out of this hole and even pull her out of this one by the tail feathers.







Karen actually walked a bit too much, and I had to finally tell her to go to the truck. She had walked until she was exhausted.

I kept on for a while but she still wasn't managing to close the deal. We hunted the one spot for at least four hours with her managing to miss every opportunity.

There was another area that I wanted to look at for a possible hunting spot. It is at the irrigation dam on Jordan Creek. The terrain is much the same as where we have been hunting.


I did find a couple of Bunnies there, but she missed them both. I walked a bit further with her and she tried to catch some of the ducks on the canal. Of course she was too slow and either saw her shadow in the water, or whatever, and tried to land on it, having to swim to the bank. I called her back and began the trip back to the truck when she saw some more ducks and took off after them, she did a quick wing over at the edge of the water. When I arrived, she was sitting in the marshy area holding a small Bull Frog. She did get some chases in on various Lizards and Chipmunks.



We started back and I decided to try one more time, but still found the area to be without the volume of game that she is going to require.

All in all we put in some 6 hours with her today, and all we had to show for it was a puny Bull Frog and some exercise.