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By Parker Heinlein
Outdoors Columnist 

The birds have all of my attention

 

September 15, 2021



I’d pretty much given up big game hunting and turned all my attention to birds.

There were a number of reasons. I could shoot something every day for one. And if I was successful it didn’t take days to pack out the meat for another.

But this season is different. Blame the drought or the heat or a combination of the two, but hunting birds lately is starting to feel more like an elk hunt.

Over the first three days of the season, I saw one grouse and he appeared to passing through.

I’m hunting my favorite places, places that in the past have always held birds. Not this fall, however.

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