Two greys and one Fox with Cinder this morning.

3+1 evening Beanhunt

Quick afternoon Beanhunt

Four with Cinder in the fresh snow.

Windy afternoon hunt with the Bean.

The wind was quite violent earlier in the day, causing a lot of downed trees and power outages. It's also been above freezing for several days so almost all the snow is gone.

I've noticed that the black grey squirrels have been spreading since I started hunting, and there's now a population of black fox squirrels in my neighborhood.

Something I don't see very often are these rusty/dark belly grey squirrels, but I've shot four or five this season so far. Usually I only get one or two, if any. But they seem to be increasing as well.

The rusty/dark patterning isn't always the same. The one on the tailgate has a rusty stripe down the belly, the one on the freezer doesn't. It will be interesting to see if these increase like the black phase has.

Four with Cinder this morning

Spending time in the woods with the Bean

First hunt of the year with Ember. Very cold morning. Squirrels were out for about an hour then nothing but dens. Managed four before the squirrels vanished.

Happy New Year

Second best part of the hunt is getting crunchy squirrel bits. Heads, feet, and tails are the favorites. This is something all the dogs get to participate in, not just the one who hunted.

New Years Eve hunt with Cinder. She had a bunch of good trees, saw lots of squirrels today. Took 4 home.

There was an ice storm yesterday. It was mostly rain with a little ice at the house but coated the place we hunt. Cinder did good with more trees than squirrels we brought home, but blew me off at the end of the hunt. She had a hard lesson to learn about that, I do not take recall lightly.

If I leave the inside door to the garage open but keep the glass door shut the dogs can watch as I clean the squirrels from that day's hunt.