If you’ve never sat on a log in a dark woods on one of the beautiful Wisconsin River hills in our area and watched morning arrive, you’re missing a wonderful thing. When you get there it’s still pretty dark and your eyes play tricks on you making stumps and logs look like deer and other critters unknown. Then as the black sky turns a deep purple and gradually turns deep blue, those stumps become just stumps again.
The birds begin to chirp and sing. It’s amazing how many different birds that are singing and the music of their songs carries through the trees. In no time squirrels begin to tightrope walk across limbs on their way to find their breakfast and then suddenly, there stands a deer looking at you wondering what that big lump is that is sitting on that log.
It’s really quite magical and one of the benefits that come with hunting wild turkeys. Oh yeah, I’d have liked to have gotten a turkey but that would have been a bonus. Watching nature come alive on a spring morning is reward enough for me.
Dan Bomkamp - Author & Host of the radio show "How's Fishing"
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