First Bird'ers: Spring 2008

All First Bird'ers get a Commemorative Row 1: Mark Szymanski, Idaho; Alex Brink, Montrose, South Dakota; Christos Zympas, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Row 2: Caitlin and Jenna Freese, South Shore, South Dakota; Devin Smith, Stillwater, Minnesota; Alex Foley, Arkon, Iowa

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Alex Brink celebrates his first rooster taken last October on public land near Montrose, South Dakota, with his father Bryan and friend Todd Nyhus, Sioux Falls. Christos Zympas, 11, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, downed his first rooster last October along with some pretty impressive company -- Jay Lawson, Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) wildlife division chief. Photo by Betty Phillips, WGFD Stillwater, MN resident Devin Smith, center, with his first Alex Foley, Akron, IA, bagged his first bird with the Plymouth County Chapter, which held a youth hunt recently. Smilin' sisters Caitlin Freese, left, and Jenna Freese with their birds last November in South Shore, South Dakota. The pair had just finished hunter safety, wrote friend Mark Glander, Wisconsin'™s Kinnickinnic Valley Chapter. David Stengel, right, of Milbank, South Dakota, shared this photo of his late nephew Mark Szymanski taking his first bird in Idaho.