Cattle Island, 12 mi. N of Riverdale on main Malahwa Jul 10, 1978 Following directions of Bill Miller we drove without a hitch to the Harry Rae property where the Datura emerge from the Barrie Mountains. Old Uncle Alex directed us to the stream across from the homestead. It was a lovely sunny day with good visibility in the water. He saw fish all day long but didn't find many of them feeding - just lying about in the weeds. I'd catch a 3 pounder. After lunch we had a slight rain squall. Just fishing at 3PM and came home. Stopped in Riverdale at the job in the little country hotel and found the place jammed with happy, noisy beer drinkers. Turns out it was "rain sakes day" in Riverdale and the cocky for miles around were assembled. The place sounded like a parrot roost. He were quickly involved in conversations and ended up buying tickets for the football lottery (at 50¢ each). A flock of short & Paradise ducks came up ad down the river several times. Uncle Alex tells me they were hatched ad reared on the place. In the evening after dinner I went close back to Chelms to retrieve my knife. It was too windy to fish - didn't see a rise. But I sat on the riverbank ad watched the mallards side slipping in the wind. A pair of teal came by - what species I do not know. Shape ad flight pattern of our Cinnamon teal.