Sorensen Oct 27, 1979 Clear and still at daylight and very few ducks in the air. The big flights of a week ago must have left with the mid-week rains and nobody came back down to take their places. What few ducks worked our pond all went to the south end, or last week. I got 4 birds in #4, Dennis and Justin had 4 in #5, and Woody had one spig in #1. I didn't fire my gun in #6 though I sat there from 6:50 to 11:15 AM. More test at shoreless today. One little bufflehead female swam about in my decoys, diving for non-existent minnows and a single ring-neck came by early. In the afternoon we put on a pheasant hunt working first the hot corner and next the north ditch and bullrush swale at east end of it. In the swale we found 75 or more birds. He had a fairly good surround and enjoyed some hot shooting for a minute. I dropped three birds with three shots, all in the corn. Jake went in and brought them out one by one. Little Justin got two ducks and two pheasants. He is getting to be a real hunter. Saw 23 heriters on the trip home. Rough-legged hawks are showing up too - saw three today.