on hill above. cultivated places. Lots tracks on roads & side hill so thick with brush to be far with Palomars Canons. Followed the more open places & then to river without seeing or hearing any. Started a band around a coper {thick one} below a bank & hit one that lit in tree. Got on all it's & groped for him & sent clog all over but no get him. Flushed 8 wool mr of 5m bnd bt no shots. Flushed a brood in willows grass above sand line in riverbed frid @ 1 & too near to aim. Lot, in tree. Ran on to a band in sand & low bushes & I got it & lost that dropped marked down. Had 6 birds, & 14 shells left when it got 6:25 too dark to shoot were about 50 in this band & along a roost