A nice outing

At the house in Placitas, first thing, I exercised Cisco out in the front. He's pretty much out of shape which is compounded by Red-tails' being pretty lazy anyway. He's gotten considerably stronger in the last week. I flew him from trees and a wooden bench and these evergreen shrubs that are all over the place. 

I put him in his buzzard box, stashed him in the closet, and then I got Farrah ready to take to the Cibola National Forest. Her scale weight was 867, pretty heavy, pretty overweight, but definitely recoverable in the field. Out in the National Forest I was all ready to go and realized I had no glove. So back to the house I traded my glove for a hat. That's a joke. But true. 

Farrah and I went the farthest in that we've ever gone. We were out well over an hour. With her high weight and being used to hunting from a t-pole, she didn't follow on very well at all.  I flushed a couple of jacks with her really well out of position. Hundreds of yards. Also one closer, where had she been at weight, I think she would have pursued him. Nevertheless was a great outing. The area is fantastic. Some folks I met said there are rattlesnakes out there. I would like to see some, just  not very often. All the years that I've stomped around Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, California. I've never seen a single rattlesnake. 

It took a little work to get Farrah back at the end of the hunt, but not bad. I was never really concerned about it. Not as much fun when your bird won't follow you very well. But still really pretty nice today.

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