HAY BALE BLIND
ARTIFICIAL GEESE EATING ARTIFICIAL CORN
BILL NAILS ONE
BILL IN THE MARSH BLIND
TEAL ON THE POND
BILL'S WETLANDTuesday, 7:30 AM. 58 degrees, wind SSW, calm but picking up. The sky is overcast, it has been raining lightly but the barometer is up, predicting partly cloudy skies.
The goose hunting trip was very enjoyable, although not very successful. We saw no geese on the way down and few wile hunting, as the migration has evidently not really started. Fall color was just becoming obvious on Friday, but much more evident on Monday. Color was mostly north of Wausau, in the middle of the state, and not much near Lake Superior. Saturday morning we hunted out of Bill’s cornfield hay-bale blind, and he was fortunate to get one bird. Sunday we saw few birds and got no shooting. Monday we went to his marsh, saw a number of far-off birds and each missed one. Bill has a small tracked vehicle called an Argo, and without it we would never have gotten to the blind. As it was, there were spots we stepped that nearly sucked us under. The marsh was alive with teal and other ducks (duck season was not open yet) and sandhill cranes, marsh wrens, hawks, herons and fall warblers. It was truly a joy to be out there.
Bill (and wife Allene) are ardent conservationists, and he has served on numerous state and local boards, taught many classes, and most important of all has created prairies and wetlands on his own properties, at his own expense. Bill has been a lifelong farmer, hunter, conservation minded developer and selfless teacher and mentor. Unfortunately bureaucrats, lawyers and elitist “environmentalists,” often with their own agendas, have made it nearly impossible for the private citizen to do their own good works. Let the farmers farm, the hunters hunt, and citizen conservationists live the good life on their own land!
Well, at least there is plenty of room for a deer in the freezer (did I just jinx myself again?).
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