Birds from around the area......Enjoy!!!!!!

Looks like a great day of quail hunting for these hunters at Deacon's Point Outfitters in Central Texas. Man I can't wait for quail season!

LOL!!! Good answer!!! I was thinking a Penguin??? LOL! Either way they are BAD lost!!

This is a real interesting picture.  At first it looks like two birds flying together

Youth opener at Decatur National Grasslands. Nephew's first birds. Only Jakes but they are hooked now.

trout caught under the birds

Five members of the Austin Woods & Waters Club (www.austinwoodsandwaters.com) recently visited the Panhandle of Texas to hunt ducks and sand hill cranes.

Great father and son turkey hunting story got forwarded to me today.  Great bird, happy young turkey hunter and priceless time spent together.

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Got back last night from a quick one-day Turkey Hunt to try and get my 7 year old son his first Turkey! He shot his first deer earlier this year, but said the next thing he wanted to get was a turkey!

Decided to let him take his first one with his rifle so we wouldn't have to get so close (shotgun range). Didn't think 7 year old patience could keep him still enough to get one with a shotgun. So, set up a jake and hen deke about 35-40 yards away. We tucked up under a tree, and had a bipod hooked up to his rifle for a steady shot.

Got to the area about 6:00am. Heard some gobbling in the distance, but nothing close. As the sun started coming up I started with some soft yelps. No response. Over the next 30 minutes, I started increasing the volume of my yelps when BAM...we got a gobble to our right about 150 yards away across a field. I told my son to get ready.

Around a minute later I saw the red and blue head popping up over the grass. Then another, and another and another. Four big jakes had spotted the dekes and were on their way!

They got to the dekes and I guess they decided that the jake deke wasn't any smaller than they were so they moved away from it. Even though I wasn't calling anymore, two of then actually came right for us. They stopped about ten yards away and thankfully turned around and started walking away. They were moving around so much and with four sets of the eyes watching...I was having my son move real slow, so he hadn't had the opportunity to shoot yet. They moved back out to about 30 yards and I told my son to shoot when he could. About 5 seconds later...BOOM! His first Turkey! It was a blast!

There were 5 other hunters with us. They all saw birds but couldn't get them to come to calls. So my son was the only one to kill a bird! All day long he kept saying... "I smoked that Turkey!"

Man I love him and had a blast! Thank you God for an awesome son and for giving us times like this to be together!!

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Hunting heritage in action!

You have got to love this turkey hunting story.  Got it in an email today.  Check out what happened below...

"Woke up in the monring. I step out back and hit the Hammer Head box call a couple of times. No response. I go back in the house put on my camo pants my camo t-shirt and my socks and flip flops.  Yeah, that's right. Flip flops. lol.

It's now about 8:20. I step back out on the back porch and hit the Hammer Head one more time and instantly have three long beards report from about 100 yards away. I wasn't even close to ready bang.

I shut the door and run to the safe get the gun and shells and haul arse for the back door. TOO LATE. The birds were already 40 yards from the house!

I wait and watch out the window for a couple seconds till they are at 27 yards and looking around for that hen. I then stepped out on the porch and BANG BANG, I've got two dead birds 9 1/2 inch beards on both with 1 inch spurs."

Now is that hunting? lol Pretty awesome. I believe this was in Abielene, Texas by the way.

Here are the limit of ducks harvested by AWWC members outside Amarillo.