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Signs of Fall

Posted on October 5, 2014 | 1 comment

These pheasants are safe for a few more days.


The first photo shows the pheasant pen that’s been featured in the Mud Bay Blog a couple of times. The pheasants live there for a few weeks in September and October before being released for the fall upland game bird season. Interestingly the pen is on Wilkinson Road. Last Friday, when I took the photo, two pheasants had escaped but were nervously hanging out near the security of the pen almost as if they wanted back in. Did they instinctively fear the coming danger of nightfall when raccoons and coyotes would be out hunting in the rural Belfair valley where the pen is located? Death by critter or death by hunter. That’s the fate that awaits most of them.
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An Effective Sign?

Posted on January 1, 2014 | 1 comment

Honest, I just stopped for a photo op.

The sign (see photo), hand lettered, reads: “This Is Not Your Wood! If I Catch You Cutting or Removing Any I Will Prosecute You!” I spotted it along the Old Belfair Highway during today’s bike ride. Left unexplained is how anyone could cut up the wood and load it without making a lot of noise. The rounds must weigh a couple of hundred pounds each. Perhaps I was late to the party and all of the wood that could easily be rustled is already gone.

After my bike ride I drove back to the sign’s location. While I was taking pictures, I noticed a small SUV pulling into the nearest driveway to the wood. It stayed at the edge of the road, engine running and brake lights on. I wondered if it belonged to the wood’s owner, ready to catch me in the act and hand me over to the Kitsap County prosecutor. If so, he didn’t need to be so vigilant. My fireplace burns gas, not wood. I just like taking pictures of signs.

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Pheasant Product

Posted on June 12, 2011 | 2 comments

A bumper crop


In 2009 I posted an entry about the pheasant pen shown in the photo. One of the birds’ major activities while they are held in captivity should be obvious. During their two weeks in the pen before release as upland game birds, clearly they do their best to fertilize every square inch of its floor. I’m glad my lawn doesn’t grow like that.

I wasn’t sure what to title this post. Although I favor clarity, I didn’t want to use the expletive sh-t in the title. Manure works when it follows steer, horse, cow, and even chicken, but doesn’t sound right when pheasant is the modifier. Other possibilities for the second word are excrement, dung, compost, and fertilizer. Fertilizer seems like the best choice even if it implies a product that might be commercially available. Maybe it should be.

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Game Birds

Posted on October 10, 2009 | 2 comments

Staging pen for pheasants

Staging pen for pheasants


In the rural Belfair Valley near the Union River, almost at the base of Gold Mountain, a man keeps pheasants in a pen that is easily seen from Wilkinson Road. Until yesterday, I thought he raised them there. That’s when I rode by on my bike to see this year’s flock, something I do every fall, along with checking out the salmon runs in local creeks.
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