Oct 23 - Moose's Birthday!!!

  To celebrate Moose’s 3rd BD, we finally were ready to hunt on time (1st time this trip). Maybe as a coincidence, we also had our most successful day of duck hunting. Moose retrieved all 8 ducks, including his first blind retrieve ever (a 40 yd sight blind), and a 150yd mark on a wounded hen mallard.

She made it into the cattails well before he got there. He drifted slightly off his mark of her entry point & had to hunt with his nose for a minute (which seemed like 5 to me) to find where the duck went into the brush - then he disappeared in there for what was an anxious 30 seconds) and reappeared proudly carrying the Susie. 
He’s been excellent the whole trip around the hotel & hunting ducks & especially pheasants - given his lack of experience & training to hunt them. He’s really tired when we’re not hunting (& sometimes when we are!), but he’s always ready to roll when the birds go down…
He definitely earned his BD present of the best duck day of his young life!