Just found a new honey hole! This is a bean field with the beans just about two inches tall. I checked it out for a few minutes on Thursday evening and shot three in just a few minutes before the storms ran me off. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
BRB came to my place this morning and we headed off around 11:00 am for this new place. BRB had to leave by 2:30 for a graduation party so we only had less than three hours, in the heat of the day, to try to whack some earth doggies /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
When we arrived there were already hogs out in the field and BRB got a whack at and adult and it's young right off the bat...two DRT at 150 yds. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif Then we moved into the larger field and I shot one next to a utility pole.
We hauled our gear out onto a little rise in the field, set up and waited all of five minutes before BRB got another one, then I missed one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif stuff happens!
BRB's turn and another double presents itself at a little over 200 yds and he gets them both /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
This went on until we had eight dead and another one that dragged off missing a large portion of it's anterior anatomy....but I'm not counting that one in my tally.
While we were waiting for more hogs the buzzards started gathering and landing among the dead hogs...but they had company:
Look real closely at the right side of the picture and you can make out a white head on one of those "buzzards" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
The three birds on the upper back left weren't buzzards, either! Notice the dead hog at the base of the utility pole on the left /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The zoom on my little digital camera doesn't do much at 200 yds, sorry!
I took BRB back to get his truck so he could make his social engagement, and I could get a couple honey do's out of the way....AND, went back to the fields around six this evening. There were groundhogs out, but something even more interesting to me! This time I brought my spotting scope, just in case there were more of those funny looking "buzzards" in the field..... and there were /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
And eating our dead groundhogs!
Through the spotting scope, but camera lens was too far away.
There were seven eagles, on the ground, in this field gathered around different groundhogs that we'd shot
earlier!
There were at least six more flying around, too!
This afternoon was a first for me, never before have I had eagles cleaning up my dead groundhogs right before my eyes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif
I just watched the eagles for the next hour, then moved to the other field and shot one more hog around eight o'clock.
Today brings me up to 32, and BRB to 23 for this year.
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