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Get off the road...i was going to say let's go up the road a little ways.
For Sean Williamson and hisboys Samuel and Steven
September 1st kicks off squirrel season and the start
of their fall adventures
yeah there's different ways of hunting squirrels. there's a great precursor for
kids to teach them about deer hunting. you can do the find a place a nice stand
and you sit there and wait where you know there's squirrels and you sit there, and you wait for them.
to patiently come out so teaches with the patience to sit and wait or you can stalk them go from
one tree to the next until you see them
you spot and stalk then you put on a
sneak on a still hunt towards them so
it's a great it's a great precursor to deer hunting
if you jump a squirrel you know you have to have a good pair of binoculars
there's a lot of times they'll just go up the tree and they lay flat across a
branch and you just look for the tail
hanging over the side or something to give you an idea where he is
and you can either try to work your way in to take a shot that's where the shotgun comes in
handy with the 22 like Samuel's using you have to be a little bit more careful
it's just like any other any hunting you have to know what your target is and what's beyond
trail cams at a level of technology that not only captures wildlife.
they also fuel the hopes and dreams for hunters of all ages
And this hillsides covered with white oaks and anything anything in here that
eats acorns if they can find a white oak
tree you'll go find the white oaks and
the white oaks all on this hillside are all in a acorns this year.
we hunt them out first
they do make squirrel calls I've never really tried it and you'll hear him
scolding whenever you come in those are
the ones that you'd like to find because then they let you know
it's almost like hunting turkeys then because turkey gobbling and you know right where they are
so a squirrel started scolding ya, you have a pretty good idea that you're gonna be
able to see him
like other game animals squirrels can be elusive but quality time with friends and family
is easy to come by when hunting New Hampshire's woods.
Late summer is the perfect time to visit Great Bay Discovery Center you might
even get to touch a horseshoe crab
or you may find a horseshoe crab molt while you discover Great Bay.
Just glass this lower section down here...and we'll wait to see if they're pitching down there.
scouting fall turkeys narrows their locations
So they're right down the backside of that woodland area.
so I gotta wait for them to hit the ground because I know they'll work this way
so gonna give a little while and see what they end up doing
this is the hardest part is trying to get in front of them so I can take make a good bust.
calls help close the distance
I can see him down over the bank now.
nice little bird need a great great meal for us this weekend- we're excited
took about 15 or 20 minutes but they worked their way down over the hill
I counted about 15 or 20 I didn't quite catch em all but I probably would have
shot a bigger bird except for that bird was right in my lap
and I knew it's gonna bust as soon as it came over so but that's fine
each year New Hampshire Fish and Game hunter education program with the help
of over 450 volunteer instructors trains over 3,000 students in hunter and trapper education
learn more about hunting in New Hampshire at Hunt NH com
my name is Clifton Mathieu I'm a New Hampshire based nature wildlife
photographer I've been doing this for about the past ten years one of the
reasons I got into nature photography
was to create an awareness to people about the outside world and how
important it is.
one of the reasons why I enjoy nature photography so much is that being able to get outside and experience
these you know these wild places and you know the moment that you see an animal
in its natural environment you know it's an amazing feeling and then to be able
to capture that image with the camera it
just takes it to that next level
and then you're able to convey those images that you've taken to a viewer you know
and they're gonna get that same feeling hopefully that you got when you took those images
in photographing wildlife there's kind of a complex aspect to it the animal is
gonna be moving running around you know they're in their natural environment and
they're trying to survive and me trying to photograph them I could potentially
be a threat to that animal so the approach is very important
in the kayak I find it easier to approach an animal and be less disturbing to it as if
you're walking in the woods it's gonna see you as a threat almost immediately
whereas in a kayak that animal is not always gonna know what you are
sometimes it may even be curious
if the wind blowing in the right direction it is doesn't smell you, you know it's basically just seeing from
your from your waist up so it it presents itself as a as a great way to approach these animals
you don't need the newest camera to go out and take great images you could get
a camera that's you know 10,15 even 20 years old a film camera perhaps
but it's more all about you know capturing those images
you know a guy once told me the other day you know he saw my
camera, looked at me and he said that camera takes great pictures and I looked at him
and I said you know the camera doesn't take great pictures you're the one who takes the great pictures.
it's not like a carpenter comes up to you and says oh that skill saw
built a beautiful house
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