Almost everything was frozen at the farm this morning. The almost part, on the other hand, is where things get good. Birds stayed overnight in the Lost 20 and Jones, and as a result, there was no ice on those fields. I would estimate 3,000 ducks on the Lost 20, and maybe half as many on Jones. Unfortunately, the ducks were mixed with a LARGE number of snow geese, and those geese are doing their signature damage to the fields.
Most encouraging of all is the fact that the birds, which I ran off the fields, left those two roosts and flew southwest, which means they aren't the same flocks we've been hunting that roost on Coleman's Reservoir. That's a good thing, because Coleman's is brimming with birds, and if the birds on the 20 and Jones are not part of that roost, there's a LOT of birds in town.
