A little Rabbit Hunting - 18 FEB

RePhil and I went out to Marshall's this afternoon to try and rustle up some bunnies.  There was only a slight breeze and the temps hovered around 40 F.  It  was a nice day to be out.

We started at the bottoms of the N farm and saw nothing but 3 red-tailed hawks.  We found Roach's trail camera and let it take a few "action" shots of us.  There may be one of a rear-end as well.  MAY, I said MAY.

We then hit the creek along the road at the S farm.  Understand, both of these places were rabbit friendly earlier in the hunting season.  So what did we see at the S farm?  Three more red-tailed hawks.  We are beginning to think the hawks took out all of "our" rabbits.

As we walked, I saw something red - or at least that is what I told RePhil.  As we came upon it, it was a Valentine's Day balloon that had escaped - again, what I told RePhil.  Actually, I planted it in preparation of asking him to be my Valentine.  He declined.

RePhil and his Valentine's Day balloon.

As we walked on, we found another balloon, some old shells, a coffee cup, and other assorted trash - which we picked up and carried out of the woods.  We're taking care of the land that Harold lets us hunt.

We did find a dead raccoon stuck in a tree about 5 feet off the ground.  I asked what was stuck in its mouth - those were its guts coming out.  Not sure what caused the death, but it has been there a while.

Dead raccoon

We ended up back at the truck, having walked 2.5 miles and seeing not a single bunny or squirrel or deer.  So we cracked open a Shinerbock and toasted the day.  We still won!

End of the hunt.  Shoes changed and beers open.



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