Final Day Of The Season

[bigredbirdfan]

We hunted Saturday night in flooded corn and it was a clear blue sky until after sunset and shooting was over. While we loaded up the truck we saw probably 1,500 mallards descend into our corn. Had there been any cloud cover providing a ceiling we would have been in the blind for that duck tornado. Dejected we went home and two of us decided to try a different lease Sunday morning This location is set up perfect for a south wind which we had plenty of. The first two birds came in about one hour into the morning and we shot both and since we had no dog we had to wait for the 30 mph wind to carry them to the other side of a 10 acre lake. In the meantime we waited in the blind. Then out of nowhere we had a group of 4 mallards lock up and drop slowly right in front of our faces. Needless to say they were all dead on the water as well. We split up to retrieve and I picked up the two earlier birds and to my heart's delight found 2 bull drake pintails. After the pair of canvas backs we shot early I was amazed what we did yesterday. Anyway, the clouds broke to sun, wind and 55 degrees and they stopped moving around. We ended the day with 2 pintails and 4 mallard drakes and 1 hen. This season was my best and may never be duplicated bc of the weather. The only ice I broke all season was 1 inch sat night.

[Bird Watcher]

nice pintail. Sounds like a good time.