...that older, more savvy ducks know a decoy when they see one, spinning or not. This observation is backed by North Country columnist Bill Marchel, who this week writes on the preceding page, "......late-season mallards rarely are pushovers...

...birds we found craws full of small, scale-like buds, almost like flakes of pine cone. Later, I told this to North Country columnist Bill Marchel, who said grouse won't tear apart cones but that squirrels will. The grouse might have been feeding...

Columnist Bill Marchel went afield on the first day of the 2005 wild turkey season. Find out if he was successful.