Monday, December 26, 2011

Well, Somewhat Better

This afternoon, in an effort to finish what we started this morning, we eased back out on the Home Field with our guests and Blake and tried it again. Mallards actually showed, and we left at the close of hours with 28 to add to the bag.

Home Field
28 Birds
21 MALLARDS!!!!
4 Shovelers
2 Greenwing
1 Gadwall

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This morning, December 26, the 26th day of the '11/12 season, Johnny, J-Hawk, & I made a somewhat optimistic trip to the blind on Chucks. Clouds again, which couldn't come as a huge surprise since we've seen only two sunny days this season. Given the overcast conditions, our expectations were fairly low, but to our surprise, the birds cooperated a bit better today. We had six mystery guests along that asked to remain nameless for employment purposes, but when we left at 9:00, we carried out 27. Not too shabby.

27 Birds
13 Gadwalls
13 Shovelers
01 Bluewing

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