I love this season. It’s baby time! It’s the perfect time to sit in my blind and hope that I get lucky.

There is something peaceful and relaxing about observing nature unseen by the animals that live in it. One can hear the sounds of natures – the movement of animals, the wind and rain that pitter patters on the ground; the foraging of animals looking for food, quietly moving through the forest, ever so graceful.

You can get close to them and observe their behaviors and get up close and personal with them in their environment.

Of course, it often takes hours and days of repeated ‘sessions’ in the blind to finally ‘get lucky’. Animals, after all, are by nature, are not necessarily creatures of habit. They mix it up to stay alive and avoid the predators.

But, over the course of a number of days, and a lot of hours, my patience and determination paid off with little white tail bucks, baby elk, and gray fox.