Still locals at the house in East Texas. I was at the ranch in Roscoe this week and they were definitely locals. Weather has been weird out there for the last 3 weeks so I’m not surprised we’re not seeing Yankee birds yet.
I have a bud who retired to a little ranch outside Enid OK. He said they just now started seeing flocks larger than 4-5 start coming in. Hopefully they'll make it down to us before seasons end.
We had a hurricane in the gulf this week.
I guess that could be a contributing factor along the south east. The main driver is temperature though. There really hasn't been a good cold puff to get them moving enmasse yet.
And you're not going to see a 10-15 degree drop in the plains until next Sunday.
I decided to sit my pond yesterday evening and caught a couple coming in to roost. Gonna be a last few days kinda season I think.
Both. The couple of white wing that came through were running solo. Also had to knock out a fox squirrel that wouldn't stop barking at me. (Jr Wardens, squirrel season here is year round)
*GASP*
Pffft! You think I'm not an expert at hillbilly chicken wings? I love some tree rat quarters.
Fried with gravy. Too bad you didn’t get 4 or 5. You could have had a mulligan for game day.
Fresh "Man, after about 4 days at SERE school, you'd shoot your own mother for a flame broiled squirrel..."
Beats the hell out of those damn yellow beetle grubs we've all used as fish bait before. Pops like a gusher and tastes like soggy wood pulp. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm.
Used to slow cook them in a crock pot but have since refined my backwoods culinary arts.
Back in the 90s it was pretty common for the Marines to run through mountain survival training in the Sierras. You should have seen what those guys could do to a casino buffet after a couple weeks on grubs, nuts and berries....
My Grandmother would take the bigger fox squirrels and would parboil them then either fry them or make dumplings out of them. Pressure cooker is a good idea.
