Mr. and Ms. Whistling Wings with one of their team members – Jill. I tried my best to get her to look into my camera lens as they were, but she clearly only had one thing on her mind in that environment – hunting. I ask Chris the other day what her name was so I could include it when I posted this shot, and he replied by telling me not only her name, but that she is amazing – what birddog trainers call a “crackerjack.” I ask him to explain that tearm and he wrote:

“A crackerjack birddog. It’s a term I’ve heard, seen in books & magazines I’ve read. My interpretation would be a dog that is just simply amazing, once-in-a-lifetime. One’s that all you have to do is teach them their names. You know when you have one, & you know your damn lucky to be feeding them. All you have to do is follow them. It’s weird some of them are just instinctively world class. The ones I have to train they just need practice in what to do. The crackerjacks read your mind. They handle like Cadillac’s! They know what to do, when to do it, & why you want them to do it. I’ve been lucky to have, raise, & feed a few in different breeds. And I’ve buried a couple (like losing a family member). I’m lucky enough to still have a few puppies showing some potential for that. The trained birddogs are good too, but just not crackerjacks.”

So, I guess Jill is as talented as she is pretty.