A Thing Of Beauty...

...The first dog lined 7/8 of the way to the blind...which is 265 yards distant from the line.

This water blind has an 80-yard entry to the first water, which is a straight ditch-type channel crossing the line and then winding around to the right and then left in an S-curve channel on line to the bird. Hence, the dog runs down to the first water in moderate grassy cover with taller grasses on the near side of the ditchbank, then crosses water through cattails up onto a neck of land and then back into the S-curve channel. Some dogs are already crossing the first ditch of water and ending up on the left bank of the S-curve channel. A cast there often puts the dog squaring and wanting to then end on the right side of the S-curve. This requires another cast to get in the channel. From the time the dog leaves this water there is a big run to the bird, which is a dead hen pheasant, up through a far slot made by two staggered trees, to the blind.