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Concur w/ Larry Brown, TRADITION

members of the phasianidae and columbidae families? Non passerines? Don't ask me about shorebirds/woodcock/snipe. I haven't found a tasty recipe yet.

I don't know how, but the bird dogs I have had could tell the difference. They would point pheasant and chukar after having been trained on nothing but quail. They would also retrieve doves, but not point them. Never had one that would point song birds.

I agree with Tom 100%! After breakfast and after dinner my Brittany "Gabe" goes out to the backyard patio with me and lays down or moseys a bit. 40 feet or so in front of us is the garden, with a bird feeder hanging on a shepherd's staff. There's also the final pavement of the driveway, where I scatter seeds for those birds too big to use the feeder.

Cardinals, sparrows, chickadees, goldfinches etc. all end up strolling around bobbing their heads while they pick up a seed.

Gabe watches casually, or not. Then the mourning doves appear. They're not a legal game bird in MA but try telling Gabe that.

Whenever he's ready he slowly creeps a pace or two and freezes in a solid point. Sometimes he tries to creep a little more. The point of course is to not run after them. Sooner or later they'll flush and then he runs, which is ok.

I want to fire a starter pistol when they flush to get the association a little more firm.

What's a game bird? Ask your bird dog!

Never had it myself, but I hear that boot leather compares favorably to woodcock.

It is simple. It is what the game and fish departments in each state SAYS is, and is not, a game bird. Has nothing to do with reason, just as allowing a .410 to be used legally for waterfowl, but not an 8 gauge, has no sensible reason today.

Many questions like this can be asked, and answered, the same way.

SRH

I like woodcock on the table just fine. But then, I love duck and doves, both dark meat. Last time we got together and cooked doves I nearly ate a limit. Enjoyed 14, with some grits .................. we ran out before I could get that limit of 15.

Marinated overnight, wrapped with bacon and grilled until a little pink inside ............... man, it's hard to get enough.

SRH

A few years back we were sitting around the camp drinking with some Cajuns from Bayou Lafourche. They were kidding one of the older members of the group about being on federal probation for shooting robins. He said that he just wanted to make robin gumbo like he used to have when he was a boy. He said that robins had a lump of yellow fat between the breasts that was "just delicious". He also said he was not going to shoot any more, because the federal judge promised him jail time if he got caught again. However, he did not seem to have truly repented, his eyes lit up when he was describing the taste of the fat.

Obviously, never been to France.


Best,
Ted

An old friend used to supplement his diet with them when he was a starving grad student in the early 1960's. He said they didn't taste like chicken.