It’s been a fun summer and fall watching hummingbirds at my feeder. When a bird is alone at the feeder, all is peaceful and quiet but when a male is feeding and another male approaches, the aerial combat of pursuit and chase is something to behold.     

Rex Moncrief (R) recently enjoyed an outing with one of the high school league members, John Kyle Pearce, who showed him how it’s done.” courtesy photo

Driving back home from town Monday, my pulse quickened just a bit. Why? A yellow butterfly slowly flitted across the road in front of me.

Last Saturday was a red letter day for eight special people who were honored by the Louisiana chapter of Legends of the Outdoors. I know who most of them are but several are special friends of mine.

Golden Orb Weaver Spiders make quick work of any insect venturing into its web. (Photo by Glynn Harris)

Two of the varieties of doves, mourning doves and white-winged doves, are legal when season opens September 7. (Photo by Glynn Harris)

Trophy bucks, like the illustration of this one have to be patterned differently than less mature deer.” Illustration by artist Reggie McLeroy.

By Bethany Blankley

THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT of Wildlife and Fisheries released 14 alligator snapping turtles onto Boeuf Wildlife Management Area in Caldwell Parish June 26. The turtle species have been named Greatest Conservative Need in Louisiana. (Submitted photo)

Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF), Delta Waterfowl (Delta), and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) this week filed an amicus brief to support the writ application filed by the State of Louisiana requesting that the Louisiana Supreme Court hear a case affecting public ownership of Cata…

LANE FERRINGTON shows off his deer he recently harvested while on a hunt in Tensas Parish. Ferrington shot the deer with a 7mm-08 at 80 yards in Grayson. (Submitted photo)

HAYES BOX, of Wisner, harvested a deer while on a hunt in Tensas Parish.  Hayes is the son of Brandon and Chelsea Box and a second grader at Gilbert School. (Submitted photo)

CONGRATULATIONS GOES out to Alex Ferrington for harvesting his first deer in Tensas Parish. Alex is the son of Eric and Ashley Ferrington of Wisner. He is a first grader at Gilbert School. (Submitted photo)

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted notices of intent for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 hunting seasons, 2019-20 general and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) hunting seasons and rules and regulations, 2020 general and WMA turkey hunting season and rules and regulations, a…

Catahoula Lake is private land according to a Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Dec. 28.

Franklin Parish Patriot Monterrius Blunt, #30, slams the basketball, as #11 Ezell Gaines and #20 Roderick Bingham block out opposing Tensas Parish players. (Photo by Monica Huff)

Winner of the American Legion Post 84 rifle raffle was Jeff Wright. Wright won a .257 Weatherby VFD bolt action rifle with a Burris E1 scope. Pictured above is Franklin Parish Sheriff Kevin Cobb drawing Wright’s name (with his eyes closed) as Bobby Collins holds the box.

Taxidermists like Marshall Wayne Poindexter and Andy Hazel not only create lifelike replicas of animals but they insure memories will remain vivid of special events in people’s lives.

By Glynn Harris

Daniel Colvin has a knack of waylaying big bucks on family property in Union Parish. Last year, he gave himself a super Christmas present when on December 25, he downed a big 10 point buck that scored over 150 inches of antler mass.

LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources Assistant Professor Kevin Ringelman has found an interesting way to bring the lessons he teaches in the classroom to life. He arranges what some may think is an unusual field trip. He and his students visited the Pine Island Hunting Club to take part…

As an outdoor writer, this is my favorite time of year. I get to write about all the big bucks taken by hunters around the state. People have started referring successful hunters to me, which helps a lot. Another way I find out about these buck slayers is on-line, especially checking sites l…

We sat side by side in a goose blind in south Louisiana, John Flores and me. Guide Jude Zaunbrecher did a great job calling in specks for us. John got his limit; I got mine too.

“Although the overall duck population remains at around 17% above the long-term average, that population has declined for the past two years,” said Larry Reynolds, Waterfowl Study Leader for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

I never thought it was possible for a human being to defy gravity but one morning many years ago, I did just that. As I eased down to the bank of a small creek, keeping my eye on the squirrel cutting beech mast across the way, it was necessary for me to hop across the creek. I made a leap an…

Lots of high action was seen at this year’s 61st Annual Deep South PRCA Rodeo. The Youth Rodeo was held last Friday and Saturday nights. The Parade rolled through downtown Winnsboro Thursday afternoon leading into Thursday night’s fun. The newly re-modeled arena provided comfortable seating …

We had them; then we didn’t; now they’re coming back. Bald Eagles have had a “now you see ‘em; now you don’t” history across Louisiana over the past forty-plus years.

During the 73rd annual conference of the Louisiana Outdoor Writer’s Association, held last weekend in Gonzales, winners in the organization’s Excellence in Craft contest were presented awards for their accomplishments over the past year.

When Whitetails Unlimited founder and president, Jeff Schinkten, left Ruston one year ago to fly back home to Wisconsin, he set the stage for what he expected to happen this year when the annual banquet of the Lincoln Parish chapter takes place August 10.

The Northeast Soil & Water Conservation District (“the District”) has recently purchased a Jager Pro Gate with a camera and a pen to assist area farmers and residents in capturing feral hogs.  The gate/camera works with your smart phone to aid in capturing the maximum number of hogs. The…

Scott Tanner landed this 11.8 pound bass on Lake Claiborne last week. With the introduction of Tiger bass to the lake, more bass this size can be expected in the next few years.

This is the time of year when periodic late afternoon thunderstorms erupt around our area, giving us welcomed showers but accompanied by jagged lightning and booming thunder.

If ever there was a visionary, a person who could look at something and imagine what it could become, it was Ruston’s Fredrick Hoogland.

Bass are easily fooled by soft plastic lures. Some bass prefer their worms Texas-rigged where the point of the hook is imbedded into the worm with a slip sinker bumping the head while others like theirs rigged Carolina style, floating free a foot below a swivel and sinker.