We bagged Spud's First Greenhead and he was excited. We were able to jump shoot it off a pond on the property.
Next He pointed that Rooster, head high and intense. I approached from the front and nothing flushed. We were right at the edge of where the weedy CRP butted up to a corn field I did not have permission to hunt. Spud was pointing into the wind and I was sure the rooster had run into the wind and further into the weedy CRP. When nothing flushed Spud broke and worked down wind very excited and searching for the bird. I was sure he was working the scent where the bird had been feeding in the corn field and was wishing he would move forward into the CRP cover instead. About that time the rooster lost its nerve in the corn stubble and flushed flying towards me. So once again the dog was right and I was wrong, a lesson I have to relearn periodically.
As we were hunting back to the truck I noted a plum thicket at the edge of the grass and the corn field. Headed towards it. Spud got birdy on the scent from the feeding covey of quail, worked around and went on point. A nice big covey flushed more to my left than I was expecting. I was able to swing around, shot once and bagged one bird as the covey made its escape across the property we did not have permission to hunt.
Spud is a wiggle worm when trying to take photos at the end of the day and that photo shows his personality.
