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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.