Through the brambles and the briars

Mississippi's wild quail population has diminished with the loss of habitat over the decades so Kali's efforts here may have been purely symbolic if not for the generosity of CJ. We sprinkled five dozen flight trained bobwhites around his deer-managed property along the edges of food plots, in blackberry tangles and in the piney woods in a best attempt to emulate a southern quail hunt from the early 20th century. 

When planting birds you can either setup a shoot or a hunt and ours was definitely a hunt. Kali's done this stuff at various times in her career and if the birds don't act wild she will actually get bored and quit hunting.  She wasn't bored at all Saturday! 

The birds were strong fliers and moved around the  cover a lot so she was a happy old dog for several hours. 

Joseph moves in on a rock-solid point in one of the food plots. 

Most of the time Kali was too concealed in the cover for photos but this bird got away and hunkered down by the pond. 

Love those water retrieves. 

Sure glad we didn't have to walk all the way back after nearly three hours of constant action. 

My old dog had a great day, not just because she nailed so many solid points and found downed birds we didn't even know we'd hit. Also because there's been too many days where we hunted miles without a whiff of birds.  She got a well-deserved day of numerous birds and retrieves and ran longer than she has in several years, forgetting about her bum leg and old age as her nose did it's thing.

And it was pretty fair chase since 25 of 60 birds made it through the brambles and briars and got away. 

First attempt at video on the blog.