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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 2, 2023 17:21:53 GMT -5
No I usually go early saturday Mornings. And once in a while on Sunday or Monday Mornings. Saturday was the last time I was out there.... I will not be out there during any of the archery, muzzle loader, or general gun season dates... Those permits are too hard to come by for me to mess up someone's hunting or be in the way out there. I generally to the same thing for Turkey Season. But last year I drove in during a turkey hunting weekend because I was watching two caracara nests and I hoping to get photos of the fledglings. I decided to do one loop around the main roads... There were only three trucks on the whole place... And I am pretty sure one of them sold his hunt. Because there was a guy sitting in the shade on paradise pen very near an area where I often see turkeys. He was sitting in a lawn chair beside his truck with a cooler and reading a book. I do go out there some during small game season. It is about time for me to shift focus on bears in Ocala anyway. And I have another trip to Alligator River NWR in North Carolina in Mid October. That is where the HUGE and Huge numbers of bears are... a guy sitting on a lawn chair reading a book with a cooler next to him during a quota hunt,, might have been one of my non hunting associates/permit holders. not uncommen to see in this time of unnecessary heavily restricted hunting opportunities. Possibly.... I saw them coming out for lunch or leaving.... The guy that was sitting was driving. There was another guy with him.
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Post by fishingsouthflorida1 on Aug 3, 2023 9:33:10 GMT -5
Were you at dinner island yesterday morning? Saw someone out there down south taking pics from their truck No I usually go early saturday Mornings. And once in a while on Sunday or Monday Mornings. Saturday was the last time I was out there.... I will not be out there during any of the archery, muzzle loader, or general gun season dates... Those permits are too hard to come by for me to mess up someone's hunting or be in the way out there. I generally to the same thing for Turkey Season. But last year I drove in during a turkey hunting weekend because I was watching two caracara nests and I hoping to get photos of the fledglings. I decided to do one loop around the main roads... There were only three trucks on the whole place... And I am pretty sure one of them sold his hunt. Because there was a guy sitting in the shade on paradise pen very near an area where I often see turkeys. He was sitting in a lawn chair beside his truck with a cooler and reading a book. I do go out there some during small game season. It is about time for me to shift focus on bears in Ocala anyway. And I have another trip to Alligator River NWR in North Carolina in Mid October. That is where the HUGE and Huge numbers of bears are... Ok just making sure. I saw someone out there Tuesday and thought maybe it was you
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 3, 2023 11:21:21 GMT -5
No I usually go early saturday Mornings. And once in a while on Sunday or Monday Mornings. Saturday was the last time I was out there.... I will not be out there during any of the archery, muzzle loader, or general gun season dates... Those permits are too hard to come by for me to mess up someone's hunting or be in the way out there. I generally to the same thing for Turkey Season. But last year I drove in during a turkey hunting weekend because I was watching two caracara nests and I hoping to get photos of the fledglings. I decided to do one loop around the main roads... There were only three trucks on the whole place... And I am pretty sure one of them sold his hunt. Because there was a guy sitting in the shade on paradise pen very near an area where I often see turkeys. He was sitting in a lawn chair beside his truck with a cooler and reading a book. I do go out there some during small game season. It is about time for me to shift focus on bears in Ocala anyway. And I have another trip to Alligator River NWR in North Carolina in Mid October. That is where the HUGE and Huge numbers of bears are... Ok just making sure. I saw someone out there Tuesday and thought maybe it was you I drive a 2021 Granite/Charcoal Color Ram 1500 Bighorn. I am sure I have probably driven past some of you guys out there... I do run into a couple of old time FS Members in dinner, the Slough and Spirit from time to time. And I have some friends I have made through photography that I bump into a lot... I photograph pretty much any kind of critters... But I really like Dinner for birds in the winter..... There are known places that have MORE birds like Circle B, Merritt Island etc... But then you are jockeying with 30 bird freaks trying to photograph one bird.... I would rather go find birds where no one is around. Small game season is going on in the winter... But I am mostly working the canals, ponds fencelines, etc.... Ducks are rare out there. But there are amazing numbers of migratory birds out there... And a huge variety... Not just shorebirds etc.... I have photographed three birds out there that were at least 2500 miles from where they were supposed to be.... Plus some bucket list birds that people spend years and tons of money trying to photograph... Including a Pie Billed Cuckoo, Grasshopper Sparrow, and a Scissor tailed Flycatcher . Plus my Caracaras are out there all year. Anyway... IF someone from here passes by me... Don't be hesitant to holler and say hey.
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