Saturday 31st October 2009

The Signal Centre.
The only thing I did wrong was not to take all the pigeons, I only took two.
Sometimes it can be difficult to decipher what you have seen. Lucky’s first hunt for the pigeon was one of those situations. At first I couldn’t have said he was quartering but the one thing that was obvious was that he was hunting and he was crossing the ground down wind of the bird. He eventually turned into the wind and headed for the bird at speed so I released it. It flew at him over his head and he turned to give it a chase but I got him back after about ten yards. He gave the releaser a good old sniff.
I placed the second bird further up the ground so he had more time to get to it and this time he was quartering. Not perfectly as he did turn back at the hedge a couple of times but only because he was so desperate to get to the bird. Unfortunately he took a long run at the bird as he was coming from behind me at pace boring into the wind. I saw his head go up and his ears go back so I knew he had the bird so I released it. This time he gave it a good course and it took time for him to come back.
The most telling thing was that when I was leading him from the car to the kennel the minute he turned the corner of the garage and saw the pigeon loft he pointed and I then walked him to the loft still on point. I think he’s got the message about the pigeons.