It seems like summer doesn’t want to go away. I got up early this morning and took a longer drive to hunt. By the time I got there the temperature was already 50 degrees. With no clouds, the dogs were coming to me quite a bit for water and it didn’t take long before Grady was slowing down. I was off the hill by 11 oclock and my shirt was soaked. Layne was even happy to get into the truck and lay down. It was 72 degrees outside without a cloud in sight.
It wasn’t quite the hunt I had a couple of days ago but we still moved 5 coveys of chukar and one covey of huns. Layne is showing some real enthusiasm to find birds and I’m seeing her slow down when she hits scent and cover the ground better.
The temperature now is supposed to stay warm through Thursday and then it’s calling for some rain and cooler temperatures. I think we’re going to lay low until than. Grady looked like today worked him pretty hard. I just wanted to post my first picture of Layne with some of her accomplishments along with her mentor.
