I guess that wasn't your "lucky" day? sorry for the pun and misfortune.
Don't know if you want to start hiking through the dense forest and open pastures finding your bird, but it may be worth a try?
Just bring your machete, you know those snakes, alligators and pesky varmints that run around can be quite entertaining.?
Like these plants that shoot poison darts. ? just kidding.
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I guess that wasn't your "lucky" day? sorry for the pun and misfortune.
Don't know if you want to start hiking through the dense forest and open pastures finding your bird, but it may be worth a try?
Just bring your machete, you know those snakes, alligators and pesky varmints that run around can be quite entertaining.?
Like these plants that shoot poison darts. ? just kidding.
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Thanks for the kind words!! I am processing the misfortune by doing what I know to do - keep tracking with prayer and logistics. I left the house at 5:45am and took a bus to the basic area - hoofed into a lake area and realized I had to go north of the highways and I was was still south. Walked for 2 hours and got to the spot - you're right - in the deep woods, fortunately only mild bug attacks - but the swampy area would let me see the area I got right on top of the GPS longitude/latitude - the greenery was from 7 to 12 foot high, like huge corn stalks - I pushed them aside for awhile until I got too close to sinking into the swampy soft mud. I also searched nearby up in the trees to between the bushes - as the GPS may have quit and the Plus kept going - but no luck this time around. I took a lot of photos and videos of my journey, and once back out of the bushland, got back to the highway and treated myself to an Uber back home - I'm really not in 20 year old Marine combat shape at this stage but I was really hoping to come back home with my baby.