Pre-East Zone youth hunt scout day
Needed to find some birds to put my young hunter on tomorrow so took a ride out to our blind.......no birds. Saw a nice wad of grays, maybe a couple hundred, on big water to our south but the broken marshes were absolutely devoid of ducks, like a duck desert, and that's flat bizarre for this area after this weather. I'm thinking it has something to do with the algae layer that's carpeting the area, supported by so much fresh water in the area over the summer. The birds apparently want nothing to do with it.
Made a move over to an area we've hunted for many years, where we got our start in this marsh, but hadn't been hunting for last few years after it fizzled out. Wouldn't you know it was loaded up, grays, greenwings, spoons, scaup, and even a handful of snows and blues. All in same patterns we saw years ago, crazy. For now, the well-assembled blind is a backup option so long as things stay this way. We'll have to adapt back to our old stompin grounds! Spent a good couple of hours just sitting and watching, taking pictures, left the birds landing around 3:30 this afternoon so hope they're around in the morning
When a few of them got up (temporarily)
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And coming back in without regard for the guy in the pirogue:
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