. . . and Smiling . . . and Smiling!

Well, we're officially 15 days deep in the 2009-2010 season, and of those 15 days, we've spent 13 in the old Home Field. She's been good to us, and despite the fact that we keep trying to bury her, she just won't die. I should also mention that the Home Field is exactly 27 birds short of an all-time record for total number of birds harvested in a single blind over an entire season. If the scenario doesn't change, we'll break that record tomorrow.

Yesterday's exit from GW's field yielded high expectations as we watched the swarm of birds encircling the Home Field. Unfortunately, the winds shifted out of the North at about 20 m.p.h. over night, creating a scenario wherein we were forced to face the sun this morning. For the record, it didn't matter. Neither the sunrise stare-down nor the mass of birds congregated in the top two paddies of the field would thwart our efforts today. J-Hawk, Papa, Gibby, Cannon, and a mystery guest who requested that he remain anonymous. Our mystery guest was forced to leave the blind after 10 minutes of hunting, but carried out his 3 shovelers as he left. That left only myself, J-Hawk, and Blind Dog to finish out the morning, but we did it with style. 21 Birds, including 12 Mallards, 3 Pins, 2 Gadwall, 4 Shovelers.






Total for Regular Season: 311
Combined Teal & Regular for 2009: 371
Birds Per Day: 20.73
171 Shovelers (Arrrrrrrrgh!)
79 Mallards
24 Specks
16 Green Wing
11 Pintails
5 Gadwall
2 Blue Wing
1 Wigeon
1 Red Head
1 Snow

Home Field: 255 -- avg. 19.61
GW's: 56 -- avg. 28