Sorenson Oct 6 to Oct 13, 1974 On Sat. Oct. 6 Dennis, Woody and I just put out decoys and trimmed the blinds. Curly gave me a very good trim job this year, with a sharp chopper. He spread the floating decoys and jelled the stick-ups where they will go after water softens the ground. Sorenson pond and some of the Mound Farm ponds have water already and we saw several hundred squire sitting peacefully. A thousand or more came over from some point to the south. Much later, Oct. 13, Woody and I came up to clean the clubhouse and install a new refrigerator and electric stove. Found the pond full so we set all the stickups. The layout is ready to shoot. There were about 1200 squire on our pond, which moved over to the main pond when we disturbed them. We are surprised by the number of kestrels. On Oct. 6 we saw 9. On Oct 13 we counted 14 coming in and 21 going out! This number usually does not come up until mid-November. On the way out to our pond we glimpsed a magnificent prairie falcon. It flew ahead of us for several hundred yards, just coasting along. No flight of falcons yet, nor hawks.