3 ducks 7 snipe (with Woody) Sorensen Dec 13, 1978 Hazy air, but threatened rain did not materialize. No wind at daylight. There was some high flight but very little down at our level. Between us we took 7 ducks of which only 2 were sprigs. At Sherman Chickering's invitation Ted shot on Sorensen's good but he only two shots, and took one sprig. Dennis took young Justin & #2 but even the teal and sprigies avoided me. He last scarcely shot his gun. My only teal shot was at a handsome little drake cinnamon, which I got. There were a few gees in the air as Dennis took a shot at a single honker that came by fairly low. After giving up on ducks at 10 pm we went after the snipe, but the big concentration the boys found here last Sunday was largely dissipated. Woody and I between us finally came up with Owen. Silly Mork and his gang got 32 (4 limits) on the south end of Round James. It sounded like a war up there. We are at a loss to explain the poor flight of ducks in the Sorensen area. Ted feels it is the change in land use, from pasture to row crops. This is as good an explanation as any. On the way out we counted 15 hestrels.