Well, got out Friday night to do a little scouting on another public land spot that I had scouted with Google Earth.  As I ground-truthed the spot, I found some trails that led through the creek bottoms and some small rubs, but nothing that I would consider to be big tracks or big rubs…so guess what, I’ll leave that spot for somebody less observing to hunt.  Yea, a big boy might show up tomorrow, but this time of the year you have got to be hunting hot sign. 

After my scouting walk, I strapped on my Summit climber and took off on a .9 mile walk to a spot that I call the “Million Dollar Funnel”.  A creek parallels a hardwood ridge which butts up against some high class homes.  Only about 75 yards of hardwoods form a great funnel between a white oak feeding area and bedding area.  Well, despite how good the spot looked, I didn’t see a deer while sitting in the stand.

Interestingly, I did jump a spike or 3 pointer about 200 yards off the road, but he was nothing I’m interested.  On the walk out, I spooked 3 more deer that were feeding in an patch of isolated oak trees.  A little tweaking on my stand site, and hopefully I’ll have a big fat doe lined up in my sights. 

One more thing that I wanted to post, what kind of hybrid duck is this.  Or is it even a hybrid duck.  There were about 20 mallards spread out on this public land waterbody and this interesting looking ???mallard/something??? was mixed in with the bunch.  Leave your comments below, I’d be interested to hear what everyone thinks this wildfowl is? 

I thought this picture was interesting too.  Some states have issues with oak regeneration, but this spot was having no issues whatsoever…thick as poison ivy!