A wild ride

Hunting seasons are popping up like spring mushrooms.

Like a lot of my outdoor buddies, I’m not a big phone person. So when I get that rare call from my fellow hunter/golfer/videographer Rod Owen of Blue Springs I make certain assumptions.

This has been a strange fall. We have enjoyed a few warm days and way too many cold, rainy days.
But even though hunting season is around the corner, don’t miss the opportunity to take your child fishing on a nearby farm pond or small lake.

Area outdoors calendar for Oct. 31

Except on a thick crust, surrounded by pepperoni, olives and cheese, I’m not all that enamored with mushrooms as an item you put in your mouth.

You can tell it’s hunting time. I received my official snipe hunting field guide, which included a master snipe hunter patch, a booklet of snipe hunting lore and a printed snipe gunnysack.

Area outdoors calendar for Oct. 17

I recently watched a hunter on a television show in Iowa bag a bobcat with his well-placed arrow.

Area outdoors calendar for Oct. 10

OK, so curiosity got the best of me. But when I heard tell that Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Hansel and Gretel – even Cinderella – might be lurking around the Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area, I went out to see.