Date: 11/17
Time: morning
Location: Mudhole
Cloud Cover: heavy
Wind Direction and Velocity: southeast moderate to strong
Temperature: warm
Barometer: 29.76 falling
Moon phase: waxing 33%
Special Notes:Waterfowl Activity: Not a whole lot moving but more than yesterday and enough.
Waterfowl Responsiveness: Still having good luck pulling most of what flies within hailing, except some high flights that showed reflex response but wouldn't fight the wind for a look.
Hunters: 2, father and grown son regulars, Harold and Mark
Guns:Malfunctions:Dog(s): Were doing our best to kill poor Peake with tipped mottleds and a long fly-off gray he plainly saw fall when none of us had. He wanted to go, so I let him and was rewarded.
Special Equipment: spinner and mmm, might mention the spinner drill has been the same as always: on for teal, off for big ducks
Curses: Can't kick at all.
Kudos: Mark and Harold have become favorites, and we had a big time.
Birds By Species: 1 bw teal, 2 gadwall, 4 gw teal, 2 mallards, 3 mottled, 1 ringneck and 5 spoons
Photo Ops: A tipped mottled that led the coyote on "a merry chase or hill and dale":
A gray we'd not seen bleed out way down the way, but the coyote did:
An odd, perhaps hybrid, mottled:
And a better view of its two white bars:
Lagniappe: