Blue Jays and Crows

I always get a lot of bird pictures on the cameras. Most of the smaller birds are hard to see but the larger birds like the jays and crows really standout. Especially when they're caught in flight.

Bushy Tails, Blue Jays and Crows

Well I'll start with the bad news first. I shoot a big 9 pointer on Thursday morning and couldn't find him. I had a good blood trail from where I shot him for about 100 yards and then nothing. It just completely stopped. I spend over two hours trying to pick it up again but never found another drop to tell each way he went. I finally just started searching the woods hoping to either find him or jump him up but never had any luck. I take a lot of pride in my marksmanship and getting a good quick and clean kill shoot on whatever I'm hunting. Just makes me sick that I hit this one and lost it.


On a brighter note we had a fantastic week of weather. Clear skies, light winds, and nice temperatures. Afternoon temperatures were a little too warm and really slowed the deer movement down until about dusk each day. I'm always having people ask me what I do in a tree stand to past the time while I'm waiting on deer to past by. So I posted a few pics on what you can watch to past the time. There is always something going on the woods. Squirrels and Chipmunks foraging, all types of birds fluttering around, Raccoons on the prowl, and on and on. Even had a Barn Owl land on a tree limb beside one of my stands last week. It was looking for any Squirrels that may have been out foraging a little too late in the day. Having a cookout at the cabin tomorrow so I won't get to post anything from last week. Hope you all have a great week. I'm off another week before I have to go back to work for a couple of days.