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Field Notes - October 27, 1965 Maine Division of Information and Education Maine State Library Digital Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife News Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 10-27-1965 Field Notes - October 27, 1965 Maine Division of Information and Education Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalmaine.com/ifw_news Recommended Citation Maine Division of Information and Education and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game, "Field Notes - October 27, 1965" (1965). Inland Fisheries and Wildlife News. 233. https://digitalmaine.com/ifw_news/233 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife at Digital Maine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inland Fisheries and Wildlife News by an authorized administrator of Digital Maine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. F I E L 0 NOTES~~ OCTOBER 27, 1965 *~~ **'}(**i~~·~~**~HB~~B~1~*~(* FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR ~RTHUfL8.0G~8..S .. D! V. B. \NATERV I LLE. OCT. 9: WARDEN OLIN JACKSON, SouTH CHINA: BtRD HUNTING SLOWED cowN AFTER THE FIRST FEW DAYS BUT WILL PICK UP. HUNTERS SEEM TO BE HAVING GOOD LUCK FINDING PHEASANTS AND PARTRiDGE IN THE AREA. SOME HUNTERS REPORT SEEING DEER WHILE BIRO HUNTtNG. I HAVE SEEN THREE DEER THIS PAST WEEK AND HAVE SEEN QUITE A NUMBER OF DUCKS ON PONDS AROUND THE AREA. WARDEN GEORGE NASH, J:FFERSON: DucK HUNTERS HAD GOOD LUCK ON OPENING · DAY. 1 SAW MORE GEESE ON OPENING DAY THAN I HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE FALL. GOOSE HUNTERS HAD BETTER THAN AVERAGE SUCCESS ON OPENING DAY. WARDEN OLIN JAC~SON AND I WORKED IN PLAIN CLOTHES ON A PRIVATE DUCK POND OPENING DAY, AND WE WERE TOLD TO LEAVE BY THE OWNERS. WE LEFT AND WA J TED FOR THE OWNERS TO COME OUT, AND WHEN Ti-lEY D t 0 WE APPREHENDED THEM FOR EXCESS BAG LIMIT OF DUCKS. EXTRA DUCKS WERE HIDDEN IN THE SLEEVES OF THEJR RAINCOATS. WARDEN WINFIELD GORDON, WARREN: A FEW BIRD AI'JD RACCOON HUNTERS ARE OUT, BUT NOT AS MUCH INTEREST AS IN PAST YEARS. A LITTLE RAIN HAS HELPED A LOT IN THE DISTRICT. THE PONDS AND STREAMS HAVE NOT COME UP YET, BUT THE GROUND IS TAKING UP MOST OF THE MOISTURE. THE NIGHTS HAVE BEEN VERY FOGGY. * * * FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR JOHN SHAW. DIV. E. WILTON. OCT. 18: WARDEN MARTIN SAVAGE, OQUOSSOC: PARTRIDGE STILL AREN 1T SHOWING UP WELL. ALL SMALL PONDS FROZE OVER FOR TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS RECENTLY. A LOT OF R•NG BILLS SHOWING UP BUT NOT MANY BLACKS. WARDEN EBEN PERRY, RANGELEY: HuNTING ACTIVITY IS EXTREMELY QUIET. HAVE NEVER SEEN SO FEW HUNTERS AFIELD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. GROUSE ARE MAKING A VERY POOR SHOWING SO FAR. 0EER SHOWING UP WELL, EXPECIALLY AT NIGHT. WARDEN ALDEN KENNETT, BETHEL: PARTRIDGE HUNTERS ARE HAVING A HARD TIME THIS YEAR TO FIND ANY BIROS IN THIS AREA. OPENING DAY ON DUCKS SAW A LARGE FLOTILLA OF HUNTERS ON THE ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER. THEY SEEMED TO BE GETTING DUCKS. MOSTLY BLACKS WERE TAKEN, WITH A FEW WOOD DUCKS AND GREEN-WINGED TEAL. WARDEN WARREN ADAMS, DIXFIELD: HUNTING SLOW; VERY FEW HUNTERS CHECKE~ OPENING DAY OF DUCK HUNTING SLOW. AVERAGE NUMBER OF DUCKS ON ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER. VERY WINDY; DUCKS FLYING HIGH. CHECKED A SNIPE HUNTER ON AN ISLAND 200 FEET LONG BY 50 FEET WIDE. HE HAD SHOT THREE SNIPE AND FLUSHED ABOUT EIGHT MORE. NoT TOO MANY WOODCOCK SHOT THE FIRST FEW DAYS -- BAD WEATHER. MORE , FIELD NOTES/ ADD I WARDEN VERNON MOULTON, RoXBURY: BIRD HUNTERS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, AND SO ARE THE BIRDS. ON Ocr. 8, I HAD A COMPLAINT OF A COW BEING SHOT IN A REMOTE PASTURE IN THE CARTHAGE AREA. THE COW APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY A BIRD HUNTER, AS WE RECOVERED NUMBER SIX SHOT FROM THE CARCASS. THERE WAS ALSO A HOLE IN THE HIDE APPROXIMATELY THE SIZE OF A .22 CALIBER, BUT THE LEAD WAS NOT FOUND. THE ANIMAL WAS BUTCHERED, AND THE MEAT WAS SAVED. WARDEN GRAY MoRRISON, l< I NGF I ELD: HUNTERS INVADED THE DEAD RIVER AREA ON SAT., Ocr. 2. I CHECKED 43 HUNTERS WITH 22 GROUSE. MANY BEAR BEING KILLED IN THE DISTRICT. FROM SUPERVISOR SHAW, OCT. 20: WARDEN JOHN SWASEY, ANDOVER: AN AMERICAN COOT WAS OBSERVED ON THE DEAD CAMBRIDGE RIVER RECENTLY. PARTRIDGE STILL NOT SHOWING UP WELL. WARDEN ALDEN KENNETT, BETHEL: GROUSE SHOWING UP A LITTLE BETTER NOW THAT LEAVES ARE COMING OFF, BUT THEY ARE STILL FAR FROM PLENTIFUL IN THIS AREA. DEER ARE REALLY IN THE APPLES NOW. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE HAVE A BUMPER CROP OF BOTH DEER AND APPLES THIS YEAR. WARDEN MARTIN SAVAGE, OQUOSSOC: BIRD HUNTERS WERE DISAPPOINTED BY A LACK OF BIRDS AGAIN THIS WEEK. A NUMBER OF DUCKS MOVED INTO THE CUPSUPTIC RIVER, WITH NO ONE HUNTING THEM. WARDEN WARREN ADAMS, DIXFIELD: NOT MANY HUNTERS OUT THIS WEEK. A LOT OF LEAVES LEFT HAS LIMITED VISIBILITY IN THE COVERS. NoT AS MANY DUCKS ON THE ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER AS LAST WEEK. WARDEN EBEN PERRY, RANGELEY: HUNTING PRESSURE HAS BEEN VERY LIGHT ALL FALL. GROUSE ARE STILL NOT SHOWING UP WELL. 0EER STILL SHOWING UP WELL AT NIGHT IN FIELDS AND ALONG SEVERAL POWER LINES. * FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR DAVID PRIEST. DIV, G, LINCOLN CENTER. OCT. 14: A FEW DEER SHOWING UP IN THE FIELDS AT NIGHT, BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE VERY LITTLE INTEREST IN HUNTING THEM. I DON 1T KNOW THAT f 1VE EVER SEEN IT SO QUIET IN OcTOBER. HUNTERS STILL HAVING FAIR LUCK WITH PARTRIDGE AND ARE DOING VERY WELL ON DUCKS ALONG THE PENOBSCOT. SUCCESS IN BEAR HUNTING APPEARS TO HAVE DROPPED OFF SHARPLY. NoT MANY BEAR HAVE BEEN REPORTED SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. WARDEN RoBERT SMITH, LINCOLN: 0UCKS ARE VERY PLENTIFUL ON THE PENOBSCOT RIVER, WITH WOOD DUCKS AND T~AL FILLING MOST HUNTERS 1 BAGS • . WOODCOCK HUNTERS ARE SHOWING UP IN GREAT NUMBERS, WITH A HIGH PERCENTAGE BEING SUCCESSFUL. PARTRIDGE AND DEER ARE STARTING TO APPEAR ON THE LANDSCAPE ONCE AGAIN. WARDEN ERWIN BONNEY, ORIENT: DEER HAVE NOT BEEN SHOWING UP WELL; HOWEVER, THERE SEEMS TO BE A FAIR AMOUNT OF SIGNS BACK IN THE WOODS • . GROUSE, WOODCOCK, AND DUCK HUNTERS SEEM TO BE DOING QUITE WELL. CHECK AN OCCASIONAL SPRUCE GROUSE • .,_ SUPERVISOR PRIEST, OcT. 18: DEER HUNTERS ARE HAVING PRETTY FAIR SUCCESS. THERE WERE 14 DEER TAGGED IN PATTEN IN THE FIRST TWO DAYS. WE HAVE PICKED UP A FEW LIGHTING CASES SINCE OcT. 12, BUT WE HAVE FEW REPORTS OF ANY NIGHT HUNTING GOING ON. DUCK HUNTERS STILL DOING WELL ON THE PENOBSCOT RIVER. PARTRIDGE STILL SHOWING UP VERY WELL IN MOST AREAS. WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL LOST PERSONS ALREADY, AND NO DOUBT THERE WILL BE MORE. NOT MANY DEER HUNTERS HAVE APPEARED SO FAR IN THIS YOUNG SEASON --MUST BE WAITING FOR COOLER WEATHER. MORE , FIELD NOTES/ADD 2 WARDEN SHERMAN CLEMENT, SHERi·v1AN Mt LLS: Two PROMINENT MEN OF SHERMAN CALLED THE OTHER EVENING AND TOLD OF THEIR HUNTING EXPERIENCES. IT SEEMS THAT WHILE HUNTING ON THE PLYWOOD ROAD IN T~l, R.5, THEY OBSERVED A LARGE OB~ECT IN THE ROAD. WHEN Ti-lE OBJECT SAW THEM, IT STARTED TOWARD THEM, AND THEY BOTH GOT A VERY GOOD LOOK AT IT AND DECIDED IT WAS A VERY LARGE WILD TURKEY. Do WE HAVE TURKEYS IN ARoosrooK CouNTY? -- WHo KNows? * * * FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR VIRGIL M. GRANT, DIV.J:L. HOULTON, OCT. tl!_: WARDEN RoBERT TRIBOU, PORTAGE POND: THE BIRD SEASON GOT OFF TO A GOOD START IN MY DISTRICT. DURING THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE NEW SEASON, I CHECKED 44 HUNTERS WITH 56 PARTRIDGE. THE BIRDS SEEM TO BE SHOWING UP WELL. DEER, ALSO, ARE STILL MAKING A GOOD SHOWING. I ANTICIPATE A SUCCESSFUL DEER SEASON. THERE IS A DECIDED LACK OF RABBITS IN THIS BACK COUNTRY. WARDEN RusSELL CooK, HouLTON: BtRD SEASON STILL SLow. WEATHER BAD, NOT MANY DUCKS AROUND. WARDEN MAURICE GORDON, MASARDIS: CAME UPON A DOE DEER THIS WEEK WITH A PAIR OF YEARLING TWINS, ONE OF WHICH WAS PURE WHITE OVER ITS ENTIRE BODY, EXCEPT FOR A SPLASH OF TAN JN ITS EARS. ALSO, HAD A SICK COW MOOSE ACCOMPANIED BY A HEALTHY BULL SPEND ALL ONE DAY IN A GRAVEL PIT ON ROUTE f I. THE FOLLOWING DAY, THEY WERE GONE. DEER ARE SHOWING UP WELL AT NIGHT, BUT THE GROUSE KILL IS LOW. WARDEN IVAN PORTER, ASHLAND: GROUSE KILL IS LOW AT THE PRESENT, AS WEATHER HAS BEEN POOR AND VER~ FEW HUNTERS OUT. * * * FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR_CURTIS COOPER, DIV. I, STOCKHOLM. OCT. 14: WARDEN CHARLES DAVIS, T.l I, R.l7: VERY FEW BIRD HUNTERS IN THE AREA, WITH ONLY A FEW BIRDS SHOWING UP AT THIS TIME. DEER AND MOOSE ARE VERY PLENTIFUL. CAMILLE BEAULIEU, A RESIDENT GUIDE AND TRAPPER IN THIS AREA, SAID THAT IN ALL HIS YEARS IN THE WOODS HE HAS ~UST GAINED A NEW RESPECT FOR BULL MOOSE. RECENTLY, ONE CHASED HIM UP A TREE AND THEN TRIED TO SHAKE HIM OUT BY HITTING THE TREE WITH HIS ANTLERS. THE MOOSE GAVE UP AND LEFT, AND CAMILLE DECIDED HE WOULD LEAVE, ALSO. HE GOT ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE BEFORE THE MOOSE CAME BACK AND CHASED HIM UP ANOTHER TREE. THIS TIME, THE MOOSE LEFT AND DJD NOT COME BACK. * * FROM WARDEN SUPERVISOR WALLACE BARRON. DIV. J. BINGHAM, OCT. 21: WARDEN lEONARD PELLETIER, JACKMAN: VERY FEW PEOPLE AROUND FOR OPENING DAY OF THE DEER SEASON. THE NEXT MORNING, OCT. 16, THEY BEGAN TO ARRIVE BEFORE DAYLIGHT. ONE RESTAURANT OWNER REPORTED SERVING MORE THAN 75 PEOPLE FOR BREAKFAST. VERY POOR PARTRIDGE HUNTING. WARDEN DoNALD WALKER, BINGHAM: II-YEAR-OLD BRucE NoRTHRUP OF Moscow KILLED HIS FIRST DEER ON SAT., OcT.
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