Joe Forma

Today marks the first day of the early goose season and the beginning of the 2011 hunt . Bob and Don Keicher invited me to join them again this year for the opening day at Pete Wilson's pond. Young Andy Wilson had monitored the geese activity and reported the birds would return to the water after feeding at 10:00am. At 9:59-30 we heard the first honk and here they came. There were about 75 birds using the pond and over the next 1/2 hour they all returned. 19 stayed. I chose not to gun but shoot the geese with my CANON  cameras and so I did really enjoyed the AM! The crew included Bob, Don, Will Elliott and some of the other regulars.  Young Andy served as our retriever and did a great job. That was a poignant reminder of all the opening days with 'my Andy' shooting the geese! Attached are few pix. I had hoped for some more explicit pix but the shooting was so fast and furious and over so quickly I didn't get into the rhythm fast enough. oh well!   

-  jf