Date: 1/7/23
Time: packed up at 11:30
Location: pit blind
Cloud Cover: mostly to partly to clear to mostly
Wind Direction and Velocity: SW 8-12. South wind blew all night and continued into morning
Temperature: 50's
Barometer:
Moon phase: full
Special Notes: 3 more weeks....
Waterfowl Activity: dead early. Big ducks started moving later in morning, mostly from north and mostly nice groups of mallards who couldn't be bothered with our calling or spot.
Very poor goose flight, after such a good flight Thursday
Saddest thing: did not see 1 green winged teal.
Waterfowl Responsiveness: we called hard to high bunches of ducks all day and at around 11 we had a single gadwall drake brake out of a mixed bunch and never flap again as he came straight to the decoys as pretty as you could draw it up.
Specks were responsive and a pair we had coming were bumped by neighbors to the north leaving blind in their sxs.
Hunters: Dakota and I
Guns:
Malfunctions:
Dog(s):
Special Equipment: watched ducks work our neighbors mojos to only land wide or leave, so I'm convinced us not using them is not hurting us at all.
Kudos: had a big duck decoy
curses: lost the speck who took 6 shots and fell in the next field over, we never could find it.
I'm pretty frustrated by the lack of response the ducks are giving and the overall inconsistency of the year. I won't be sad on January 29th.
Birds By Species:
1 gadwall
Photo Ops:
Plenty of time for sunrise pics this year.

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