Sorusum Dec 17, 1977 Woody and I drove out at daylight to the park but we didn't get out of the car. There was a driving, driving rain and a 30mph south wind. So we watched. Absolutely no fligher over our pond, and little shooting elsewhere. But we could see clouds of ducks (largely sprig) landing in the harvested corn field between the pond and the main Belmont. From time to time they would flush but settle again in some other part of the field. It obviously wanted nothing to do with ponds. He drove down and flushed them once but they wouldn't leave. So we decided this was no day for such hunting and we got and went home at 5 pm. As we left the ranch we found another big roost of sprigs in a winter barley field just S of Belki road. There were country farters and the whole works. I remember other times, as the old Cotical Club and elsewhere, when ducks shunned ponds in a wild storm but flew low over pastures and fields. On such a day the place to hunt is in a ditch in open country. Again, beatles were not much in evidence (count - 5).