Hunting Sunday December 12, 2011 – 10:00AM
Valley Green Farm East Gate (Deutschland)

Huntsman: Eleanor Hartwell (Wakeyan)

Whips: Mary Hensel MFH (Lark), Gene Deutsch (Belle), and Tess Fleishli (grey mare)

First Field: Leslie Granger (Maurice) Fieldmaster, Sue Marshall (Stretch), Michael Murphy (Mo), Joe Vitale


15 1/2 couple hounds

Started at 10:00 AM

GPS readings 11.2 miles. Max speed 24.5 mph. Moving average 6.4 mph. 1 hour 45 minutes moving, 1 hour 13 minutes stopped Total time 2 hrs 58 minutes.

Lunch/Brunch – Prepared by Bob and Nichole Norton, sandwiches and fruit salad.

It was 38 degrees when we started out and it warmed up to 48 degrees. The wind was coming from the Southwest. Barometric pressure was falling.

From the parking area we headed west into the woods along the road. We looped around and heard hounds speaking near Tim Browns. We made a loop around and continued. It was basically a pretty fast day with hounds being hard to keep together as the split on two coyotes early on. We finally gathered them back together and were headed back toward the trailers when we viewed a big coyote crossing the field ahead of us. We took off again and chased him for a while. When we got back to the trailers we found out that Tess had viewed several times and had even been able to video a coyote with her cell phone as she watched it play.

Bob and Nichole brought a fabulous picnic feast for us to enjoy. It was a great end to a great day.