RENO COUNTY — A Kansas boy is recovering from injuries in a hunting accident.

Jean Carlos Alcala, 37, Wichita, his 11-year-old son and a 9-year-old nephew were hunting birds Sunday morning at a Walk-In-Hunting field in the 26000 Blk. of South Dean Road, according to a report from the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department.

The man swung his 12-gauge shotgun to the left to shoot at a flying bird. The 11-year-old was approx. 20 feet to the left and had walked a little ahead the group. Some of the birdshot struck the boy in the face.

The boy was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Wichita for treatment of the superficial wounds, according to the sheriff’s department.