BIRD OF PARADISE

• THE SEASON
• SHOTGUNS
• ESCAPES
• THE WILD CHEF
• ASK PETZAL
• RIFLES
• HUNTING
• THE TOTAL OUTDOORSMAN

ARK MCBRIDE POINTED through a thin beam of headlamp light to a canal just to our left as we walked in the pitch black to a 50-acre flatwater impoundment in central Florida. “Watch out for the gator,” he said. When he scouted the spot a few days before, he had spotted a