September 2021 with one of our springers hunting quail and it was a pleasant session.

Leah

Taffy

Taffy standing tall checking out a pair of pheasants.

Taffy

Taffy checking out a pair of pheasants she got earlier.

Fern after opeing day of Pheasant season.

Fern looking over a pair of pheasants.

Leah checking out a pair of pheasants.

Long after the hunt Leah retrieving a quail to her owner Don.

After hunting very hunting with a lot of drive, desire & ability Taffy checks out her owner Don with a snow shovel heaping with Quail.

Taffy inspecting the days harvest of quail.

The gang after a big day of quail hunting, they found and retrieved every quail that went down, not one lost bird. Kudos to the dogs for doing such great work, the hunters shot well but not a 100% like the Springers did. Dogs from left Mr. Miles, Leah and Taffy (Aka Pecan Pie).

Mr. Miles left checking out Taffy, both held up very well with drive, desire to hunt & flush all the way through a five hour qail hunt.

Leah after about five hours of quail hunting holding one in her mouth. The dogs found and retrieved every quail that was shot.

Seneca County Youth Pheasant Hunter with Leah on the left & Ella on the right as they flushed pheasants for the youths to bag.

Leah left  Ella center after another round in the field flushing pheasants at the Seneca County Youth Pheasant Youth

Seneca County Pheasants Forever put on a youth pheasant hunt and Leah left & Taffy right pose in between rounds of flushing pheasants for youths.

2001 with English Springers, volunteering dogs and time to hunt and flush pheasant for youths at a youth pheasant hunt sponsored by TNKFK.

Reminding the youths a safety just prior to their hunt and letting the Springers out of the dog box in the back of the pick up.

Cheyenne Indian reservation S.D. 2011.

The first triple of pheasants I ever shot was on October2003, and the dogs saved my triple as three pheasants went down in separate areas one unknowingly over the edge of a very steep river bank where the dogs could not wind it. With persistence a little wind must have shifted and brought sent up over the river bank and a dog retrieved my 3rd bird.

This year I made a second hunting trip to Iowa as I wanted to do a winter hunt, it ended up being a very challenging pheasant hunt. The pheasants were extremely flighty, when even slowing a vehicle down would spoke pheasants 500 yards or more away, getting out of vehicle with out sending pheasants to flight was nearly impossible. We found that we needed to park a half mile down the road and ever so quietly get out of the vehicle and walk to road. Once in the field the snow crunched and again would send pheasants several hundred yards away to flight. Once a shot was fired there was not a pheasant within a half a mile, and that's when we decided to take a few rabbits. FYI the bird dogs still dutifully hunted birds and did not get side tracked on rabbits.

Youth Hunt

Youth hunt

Ella left as a young dog in Iowa taking a break during a pheasant hunt, left Brittney who held up well especially for being 11 years old at the time of this photo.

In Iowa with temps in upper 60s which made it rather warm for the Hunter & the English Springers.

Iowa pheasant hunt with two English Springers Hunter's Olive left & Hunter's Miss Ivy right, checking out the pheasant that were harvested.

Left to right Ella, Leah & Miles in South Dakota after an afternoon pheasant hunt.

A tally of tails after a few days hunting in Iowa with our English Springer Spaniels.

Seneca county Presents forever Youth Hunt

A cold hunt in December in South Dakota left is Hunter's Ella & right is Hunter's Mr. Miles

Hunter's Black "Olive" after a pheasant hunt.

Brittney an English Springer after a pheasant hunt, she lived to 14+ years of age.

From left to right Fern, Olive, Ella, and Thunder.

From left to right Fern, Olive, Ella, and Thunder.

Thunder

Pheasant hunt.

End of the day.

From right to left Olive, Ella, Fern, and Thunder.

Cheyenne Indian reservation S.D. 2011.

Cheyenne Indian reservation S.D. 2011.

Cheyenne Indian reservation S.D. 2011.

Ella 2011.

Thanksgiving 2011.

Springers from left Fern and Taffy after successfully helping put birds in three youths game bags at Seneca Co Pheasants Forever Youth Hunt Oct 2012.

Springers from left are Mr. Miles and Taffy who helped fill two youths game bags with pheasants at Seneca Co Pheasants Forever Youth Hunt Oct 2012

Two youths at the Seneca Co Pheasants Forever Youth Hunt are all smiles after a pheasant hunt.

After a day in the field in South Dakota 2012

After a day in the field in South Dakota 2012

Taffy after a day in South Dakota.

A quick start to the day in South Dakota Miles

Miles with a dozen big roosters in South Dakota 2012

Ella looking over a pair of pheasants before returning to the hunt.

Fern is to the left as viewed and Mr. Miles on the right with 18 pheasants.

Fern an English Springer Spaniel proved to be a versatile upland bird dog as she retrieved these ducks through out the hunt. Some retrieves required good search abilities to find and retrieve downed ducks.

Fern in the water an excellent swimmer in search of a hooded merganser duck, on a cold day in January 2014.

Fern chased down this duck among the decoys proving to solid gundog that eagerly retrieves ducks.

Fern does a complete retrieve to hand every time, this time with a Mallard Drake.

Waterfowl hiding in the brush is no match for this English Springer "Fern" to search out, find and retrieve.

South Dakota 2015

November 2015 three generations of English Springer Spaniels far left Mr. Miles 8 years old, center - Camille 1 year old, and far right Ella 11 years old and still an excellent hard hunting upland bird dog.

Three generations of English Springer Spaniels all great upland bird dogs far left Camille 1 year old, center her Sire Mr. Miles 8 years old and his Dam to the far right Ella 11 years old.

Dot one of our Springers, 6 months old retrieving a chukar to hand.

Quinn a 5 month old English Springer of ours doing a July 2021 hunt a chukars, she retrieves shot birds straight to hand.

July 2021 Dot a 5 month old English Springer fully trained at 5 months old. Dot is a pleasure to hunt with.

July 2021 at only 5 months old Dot caught a chukar and promptly retrieves it to hand.

Late June 2022 released some pheasants on a private dog training grounds for a hunt / training session. Despite the thick green grass Quinn a 1 yr old, she was able to find birds and marked this downed rooster and quickly retrieved it.

July 2022 Basil out at our dog training grounds there was a strong breeze made for a nice session to release a few pheasants. Basil did a nice job finding and retrieving upland birds to hand.

Dot a one year old springer of our in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan retrieving a shot Ruff Grouse.

Dot & Quinn our 1 year old springers guiding for these four men did an excellent job flushing pheasants and retrieving the birds to hand.