5 sprige Dorensen Oct. 26, 1977 As record choice I went to #4 and was not sorry. Fed in #2 ad I got all the shooting, as sometimes happens on a SW breeze. Blinds 5 ad 6 got essentially no action. Between 7:00 ad 8:15 birds showed real attraction to the #4 corner of the pond. I had good action ad shot well - 5 birds with 8 shells, finishing off with a very big double. I called Hennis over from #5 as I cleared out, but not another bird came. He did not fire his gun. The total flight Today was about the lightest I can have seen here. Very few high overhead flocks. More midgem than on the week-end but still 50% sprig. Very few shovelers or teal. No geese at all. A few canvasbacks. Best news - The snipe are starting to arrive. I saw flocks of 6 ad 8, ad a few singlers circling around, ad Hennis gunged three as he came out diagonally across the S end. We may have enough for a shoot soon. There are some big groups of curlews gathered on pasture being irrigated. A few yellowlegs ad dowitchers too. Home early in the afternoon. No birded count since we used a different route.