Thought you guys might like to hear what the dogs and I found at your old turnaround blind this morning - nothing. Not a stinkin' duck.
Whole lot of dead high ground that's only starting to recover:
What's normally flooded is doing much better with a lot of smartweed coming on:
And there are still some high islands of fall panicum/spaghetti grass and something I don't know a name for out there by your old blind that would have made hiding it much easier - if Doug didn't plow it under:
But NO ducks.
Did find where the current renters optimistically set up for what appears to have been a small army of teal hunters:
and left less than a dozen empties to vouch for their efforts. So I'm guessing your September season went better than theirs.
Did put a slew of mottleds and teal out of the little 7 acre corner just before the hump, where they'd apparently been stripping the heads off of smartweed, with the main difference I could see being that corner is usually wet or flooded and didn't have nearly so much upland vegetation that died to produce as much black water as elsewhere back back there.