Video--Bruno Blind Retrieves Downed Woodcock 10/7/2008

While grouse and woodcock hunting in scenic Northern Michigan, I called our GSP Bruno to blind retrieve a woodcock that I had flushed and shot from behind and to my left while Bruno worked an aspen thicket 25 yards to my right. I had to spin and shoot quickly because the trees still have much foliage. I mentally marked the approximate location where the timberdoodle fell, then directed Bruno with hand and voice commands to perform a blind retrieve. The video tells the rest of the story...

Bruno's First Woodcock, Fall 2006

This is a photo of me and our GSP Bruno with his first woodcock, which he pointed and retrieved at age 9.75 months. The photo was taken by my wife Christine, who before we got Bruno, acted as my flushing "bird dog". Bruno at first didn't like the "taste" of the woodcock in his mouth and dropped the bird a couple times, but with some gentle encouragement, he finally retrieved it to my hand. Ever since this time he has never dropped a downed woodcock.