Every Hunting Season is Different

Every hunting season is different.

This one exceptionally so.

Drought, heat, and an infestation of grasshoppers guaranteed it.

Since the upland bird season opened in September, I’ve been out more days than not. A lack of birds in my favorite haunts hasn’t kept me home.

There’s still plenty to see.

I was looking at pictures on my phone yesterday and a shot taken Sept. 1 popped up. Typically the pictures I take on the day of the opener are of my dogs and a dead grouse or two. This was a picture of a cow moose trotting across the Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge.

Moose are becoming more...