5 sprig 1 spoonie Gale Goose Club, adjoining Grey Lodge on west Dec. 20, 1978 Mr. Henry Irione invited me for a dinner to talk about a possible California Waterfowl Museum, with a duck shoot next morning. John Conran was there for dinner as well as Diane Irione and two other club members -- Andy and Wayne. We had a lovely duck dinner at a good talk. Wednesday was clear, cold and calm, with ice around the edge of the ponds that didn't melt until noon. I started out badly -- so we waded out toward the blinds mallards started flying out of the timber behind me and coming over in the half dark. Henry got shells in his gun first at short, I followed and got one, which turned into a spoonie! Oh well. From then on I stayed with sprige and got five by quitting time 2:30 PM. Off again during the morning there were magnificent flights of snow geese and ducks. Relatively few geese and only a couple of flocks of honkers. There were actually more sandhill cranes than honkers. Lots of widgen and gadwall worked low over our ground as well as spoonies and a few green-winged teal. Two flocks of white pelicans sailed over majestically. The sloughs were full of short-billed marsh wrens which added interest. No shore birds at all!