Tall Timbers

David Douglas and Jerald Scholar stand at the ready

A pinter waits at the cusp of the brood fields

Christy Douglas and Russell Holliday among the open swath of pines

The Lake Swamp gang among the timbers

Evidence of the Tall Timbers quail program on one of the iconic game birds

Builder and bird hunter David Douglas

Paul Owens waits with his bird dog companion

The group’s pointer roams the flush grassland on the day of a hunt

The barrel of a hunter’s gun primed for a day in the fields

David Douglas with a very birdy friend

The cypress-shaded banks of the Little Pee Dee River

A timber seedling–soon to be part of the long stretch of pines

A bird dog works the clover for scent

Christy Douglas and pointer

Christy Douglas and Russell Holliday in the field.