Duck Hunting Pictures

Here are some pictures from opening day of duck season and another short duck hunt that I was on.
This was on easy retrieve for Beau, all he had to do was swim.
Voila des images de l'ouverture du canard et d'une autre petite journee de chasse au canard a laquelle j'ai participe.
C'etait un rapport facile pour Beau, il n'avait qu'a nager.

This was a more difficult retrieve, do not only to the fact he didn't see the bird fall, but the area in which it landed.
The vegetation you see is like little islands, the dog can't walk across it and he can't swim either.
Some places it will not even hold his weight up.
C'etait un rapport plus difficile, du non seulement au fait qu'il n'avait pas vu l'oiseau tomber, mais au type d'endroit ou il etait tombe.
La vegetation que vous voyez est comme ders petites iles, le chien ne peut pas marcher a travers et ne peut pas nager non plus.
A quelques endroits, ca ne supporte meme pas son poids.
My friend told me that usually when they hunted there the birds had to be retrieved using waders or by pushing and pulling yourself through in a canoe with one foot in and the other pushing off the islands.
He had never seen a dog do well there, even a Labrador owned by a friend of his, until that day.
Beau was in there over two hours looking for the ducks.
Mon ami m'a dit que d'habitude quand ils chasaient la les oiseaux devaient etre rapportes en utilisant des echasses ou canoe, avec un pied dans le canoe et l'autre poussant sur les iles.
Il n'avait jamais vu un chien bien se debrouiller la, meme le labrador d'un ami a lui, jusqu'a ce jour.
Beau etait la plus de deux heures a chercher des canards.
We moved to a different blind to try and shoot some geese, unfortunately none came into range, and the dog was still excited by all the honking of the geese, he had lots of energy and desire left after the hard retrieves . I was very pleased by his work that day.
On est alles a un endroit different pour essayer de tirer des oies, helas il n'y en a pas eut a portee, et le chien etait encore exite par les cris des oies, il avait encore beaucoup d'energie et d'envie apres ces rapports difficiles.
J'etais tres staisfait de son travail ce jour.

Here he is posing nicely after a successful hunt because of his hard work. He lives to find and retrieve birds.
Ici il pose joliement apres une chasse reussie grace a son dur travail.
Il vit pour trouver et raporter des oiseaux.

This is after a quick morning hunt.
C'est apres une petite chasse le matin.

Hopefully the leaves fall soon so that we can go grouse and woodcock hunting.
It has been unseasonably warm and humid here lately, 29 Celsius tomorrow and humid when it should be about 15-18 Celcius. We are gettting rain now after none all summer and there are lots of mosquitoes in the woods, we have had no frost to kill them of yet. I will post some pictures from my hunts.
J'espere que les feuilles vont tomber bientot pour qu'on puisse chasser grousses et becasses.
Ca a ete exceptionellement chaud et humide ici recemmenent, 29 degres demain et humide quand ca devrait faire 15 a 18 degres. Nous avons de la pliue maintenant alors que nous n'en avons pas eut de tout l'ete et il y a beaucoup de moustiques dans les bois, nous n'avons pas encore de gelees poru les tuer. Je posterai quelques photos de ma chasse.

Could someone translate this please. Merci.

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Very impressive work from Beau. And I would add that I like his look too (nice head shape). This is a sire to use.

I remember a few year ago a owner who paid a lot of money to a "professional" handler to learn his Bourbonnais to retrieve ducks, to no avail. They concluded "Bourbonnais are not done for that". What a mistake.
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Thank you for your translation and your compliments.