1 Spring 2 Sunday Sorensen Nov. 16, 1977 A promising W breeze at breakfast time fettered out to dead calm as daylight. Then a slight NE breeze blew for an hour, followed by more calm. At 9:30 a nice NW breeze started but by then the flight was over. In no. 2 I had three long shots in the first hour and missed them all. About 9 I had my first chance and missed the right lateral but connected on the left. Our chances for shooting were considerably diminished by the total absence of hunters on the main Silver pond - birds jammed in there by the thousands and sucked up wandering flocks. It kept the shy pretty well swept clean. But the snipes are in! As we left the pond we gunned a whole gang of them in our south end and all the way along the road to the cars. I got two just walking along, but didn't have time to go back for a serious hunt - had to get back to Berkeley for a meeting of the CAS Directors. We'll catch up with those raccoons later. Saw 9 kestrels on the way home.