Bailey, my 9-year-old black Lab, and I were out for our first walk of the morning the other day when I heard the unmistakable crow of a rooster pheasant. Bailey heard it too. She knows the sound of a ...
There may be no prettier place to be than the Yakima Valley in mid-October. And this past Saturday was the perfect time to be outdoors. I’m guessing the folks fishing for salmon down in the Hanford ...
And then it happened -- a closer thrashing of wings as a cackling rooster came clamoring through the thicket in my direction. The bird’s raucous vocalizations were startling; the pheasant’s tail was a ...
The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...
It is assumed by many folks that pheasants are indigenous to North America, but they are not. Their ancestry hails primarily from Eurasia, where various regions feature distinctly different subspecies ...