The Perennial Plate Episode 85: Goose Dilemma from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.
Back in September I filmed an appearance for the web TV show, 'The Perennial Plate' with Mirra Fine and Daniel Klein. We met up at Glass House Winery in Free Union, Virginia to hunt and cook giant Canada geese.
The episode is finally finished and online today. I really like what they did with the editing.
Helenah Swedberg put together a quick three minute segment about the same outing. She was filming the filming while working on her movie about me. They each captured an slightly different take on the day's events, with the common theme being lots of shots of my butt.
One thing that I want to clarify about the goose situation is that Canada geese are in fact native to the eastern part of Virginia. I don't want people to think that I'm saying all geese are invasive in all of Virginia. Here in Albemarle County we are way off of the Atlantic flyway where Canada geese would traditionally have been found. What we have here are resident geese of a subspecies that isn't even native to the Atlantic flyway. It was those non-native resident geese that we were hunting in this episode.
The other guy hunting with me in this episode is Michael Macfarlane. We probably wouldn't have gotten any geese that day without Michael's help. Our strategy for bagging the three geese that were warily hanging out on the other side of the pond, out of range, required a two-person approach.
We checked the direction of the wind, knowing that the geese would need to take off into the wind to create the necessary lift (like an airplane). Michael positioned himself straight down-wind of them in plain view. The idea was to distract the geese with Michael's obvious presence. I wanted them to be watching Michael while I stalked up behind them from the woods. Then once I started shooting they would have to fly straight at him and he could drop any that I missed.
The plan worked beautifully. I caught the geese totally by surprise with Helenah and Daniel filming behind me. I bagged one on the water (the point was culling here -- not sport) and took a second on the wing. The third one came right at Michael as planned and he dropped it perfectly.
Those extra shots that you can hear me taking were to finish off the birds as they fell.
Michael also did equal work plucking, gutting and butchering. I was the one being interviewed and filmed but Michael was an equal partner in the day's success.
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