Now that it is 10 degrees outside and hunting season is coming to an end, I am finally getting a chance to sit down at the computer and go through all the pictures we took this fall. We had a great time out in the field with Parker this year, he did excellent for his first year of pheasant hunting!! He is now 1year and 6 months old. We worked with him prior to the season using some dead birds but when the season finally opened and we got him out in the field and he flushed his first live bird, Boy! Was He Excited!!! From then on whenever he caught that scent he'd get that "Birdy" look to him and it didn't take him long at all before he was flushing more birds then we could shoot!

The first couple of times or so he'd be great at flushing the birds but he wouldn't pick them up or hold them in his mouth. He would run to where the bird landed then just stop and look at the bird and then look back at us. Then all of a sudden one day it seemed to just click and he did it perfectly, flushed the bird, retrieved it and came back to heel and held it perfect!!!

He is amazing! He is so very well behaved and learns so fast! He is definitely spoiled. I get heck for letting him on the couch and the bed, my husband says, "What kind of hunting dog is he supposed to be anyway?!" (But I know he likes having him to snuggle with too by the big smile on his face as he laughs every time Parker lays a big wet one on his cheek!)

Parker has brought so much joy to our lives since he came. He is definitely loved more than he will ever know!!

I've attached some pictures from this year's pheasant season. It was a slow year for grouse here and we only got out a couple of times. Deer season is pretty slow this year as well. Jason can't wait for next fall to get here so he and Parker can get out pheasant hunting again!!!  Take care and Have a Very Merry Christmas!!!

Allison and Jason Briggaman, New Hampshire