Hunting journal, v4471
Page 365
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Sorenson Dec 15, 1979 There have been a succession of foggy mornings on shoot days. Add one more! It was thin at daylight but got denser as the sun rose and didn't start breaking until 10:30 AM. I saw my first duck (a & spoonie) at exactly 10:46. Finally got a shot at 11:59 when Jed shot and drove a single coot spiri off the pond over me. I got him as that constituted my shoot for the day. Dennis Jason had 5 in #5, Jed had 2 in #3, Woody had 1 in #4 as I had 1 in #6. Big deal! Yet there were plenty of birds in the area. Woody and I drove out Friday evening and saw a good batch of ducks on our pond as also on Sorenson pond. In the fog you could hear them going over all morning. After lunch we went out for pheasants but found the surviving birds pretty wary about hunting. Worked the swamp at the turn of the ditches in the northeast corner of Valore but only bagged 4 birds between us. They would run out into glowed fields rather than get trapped on ditches. Woody and I then went for snipe and had a bit of shooting in the foggy area between Kaiser pond and Little Joe's. Because of continuing dry weather the snipe are still concentrated around our ponds. Saw a prairie falcon as lots of rough-lige. Our heartfelt count coming up Fri. Aylwood was 30.