Bud wrote:...While you are talking about these geese staying pure a hundred plus years ago, what exactly was that eagle head, anyway? Was he pure? Shot him up too bad to mount him. Was he a blue?...
Have to admit not recalling the goose - but have long wondered how Ronnie knew the mallard shape still silhouetted by the sun was your mottled. "Eagle head" is a common term for blues with the white heads they all develop after their first year, and pure strain blues all had dark undercarriages. ("All," of course, excluding the genetic freaks I'd guess the piebald one in Dave's photo to have been.) If yours had a white underside, it was surely of mixed phases, and if dark underneath, it may or may not, have been genetically pure blue phase. Sort of like some black Labs carrying yellow and/or brown phase genes, as well as black.
. I've been on that lease since 2005, was a working guest from 1994-2005, and I've never seen conditions like this. The "big pond" at the corner of Hwy 27 and Little Chenier Road has always had at least a sheen of water, and the channels at my end have always been wet and bad muddy, even when there wasn't water enough to hunt anywhere else. So we did feel a little foolish hauling sleds with tools, ice chest, etc. behind us, but we honestly expected at least a few spots of muddy substrate. Instead, I might've driven there in my truck. 
.....(also no it's not funny)...
or they were not heavy. Time for some rain dancing on the levee's!!!!