Well this hunter is beat, but what a great day in the woods.  I got into my ground blind early as always.  I didn't see much till about 7:30am.  I had a Blacktail buck chase a doe around me four times.  Each time they were in shotoing range (20 yards or less) but they were moving at breeding speed.         That calmed down after awhile.  I had another doe come running some time later.  She went by me at about 5 yards.  I got all ready for the buck I just Knew was going to be hounding her.  Instead of the buck I got two stray dogs!  I went and scared them off home, but not before I had a serious stand off with one of the dogs.  It had it's hackles up, tail down and growling some thing fierce.  I was ready to shoot if it took even one step closer to me.  I think it was scared cause I had my ASAT leafy suit on and didn't know what the heck I was.  It choose to run, wich was a good idea.  I never saw any deer after the dogs came through.  Toward the evening at around 4:20, a fox came by.  I had read either here or some where that you can call them in by "kissing" the back of your thumb knuckle.  I thought "what the heck" and gave it a try when the Fox was about 20 yards away.  I figured he'd stop, look, and take off.  He stopped allright.  then he want into total stalking mode and quickly came right at me and closed the gap to about 8 yards! I was pretty suprised it worked.  He stood there and checked me out for a good 30 seconeds and then dodge back into the blackberries.  It was beautiful and certainly that's the closest I have ever been to a wild fox.  I think it was still young, as I have seen bigger ones.  It's fur was gorgous.  
Oh and earlier in the day I had a immature Redtail fly right over me and I got a good view of it.  I got to watch it fly around and make it's call for the rest of the afternoon. To top it all off it was a beautiful sunny day for once.
I took some pictures and I put them together in a slide show on photobucket.  Hope this works...

 

Thank you for sharing your part of the world.

I awoke 4:30 Am all rested AND READY.About 7 Am a skinny lil doe appeared. Knew somethin a bit larger would or should appear. Well there is always tomorrow. Thanks for the support. Bowferd

Thanks Bard, I really enjoyed the images.

Very nice pics. thank you

Nice Work!!    


Bill

That was pretty cool. At first I didn't care much for the music, but by the end I liked it.

Cool, thanks.

Thanks Derek, enjoyed the show . . . Well Done!!

Admired that custom camo hunting seat you use.

POP

Thanks every one!
Mr. Kellar: haha  yeah well, it doesnt squeek, leak, or creak.  It does however, sink into the wet ground far enough that even Curtis could sit in it and have his feet flat on the ground.    

Derek

Nice! I've been using a chair zactly like that one. It works great.

thanks for sharing, you had me right there with ya. "breeding speed", nearly spit my coffee all over the key board!!!