well done. How was the wind? Good dog that can figure out runners!
We had really heavy winds on two days. Made it tougher for the dog and once the birds were up and turned they were moving.
You are right on the runners --- this one made me smile
On the runners I watched a father and son with their dog and a pheasant they thought they had cornered. The grass is knee to mid thigh high so easy to lose track of the dog. Pheasant headed east away from the Dad. Son and dog went east to cut it off, pheasant doubled back and dropped down in an irrigation ditch. Neither the Dad or son saw the bird or their dog drop into the ditch. There was an access road with a big culvert that connected to another ditch with a small bridge for the flood gate. Near as I can figure the pheasant went through the curvert heading west and under the bridge, as the dog came up on the east side of the culvert, the son and Dad were pointing into the grass to the east to get the dog to go there and I watched the pheasant come up on a bank down a distance on the west side of the bridge, cross a trail behind the Dad to the west and head into a grass pasture to the north.