Well, the birds are still there, and may have gotten reinforcements. Seems the youth hunters had really good hunts, with some on the upper end of the age scale getting there limits in fifteen to twenty minutes, I was told. Go pro battery was dead so I didn't get any footage.
The weekend didn't start out too good, with a dead battery for the go devil and then quitting on us half way to the blind with the first load of roseau. After push poling for twenty minutes back in the direction of the boat shed, I made an adjustment to the carb and got it running. It actually ran well enough for us to finish up all of the work this weekend. We'll cross our fingers for next weekend.
We got the blind brushed Saturday and I plan on adding roseau to the little islands around us to help with blinding. Behind me in this picture, about 40 to 50 yards, starts large stands of roseau for miles, so we're not the only clump in this marsh. Bill and I sat here (see picture) this morning watching gadwall land in the decoys. Activity was non-stop the whole time we were out there. We saw many species, and the mallard hens were loud. Lots and lots of feeding chatter just to our east, with large black clouds lifting and hopscotching over the marsh. I got out of the camp at daylight this morning and watched, for 20 minutes or so, flock after flock coming from the north, some had 80 to 100 birds. This was as far as we could see, east and west.
I was told that just two years ago this blind location was on the edge of a closed pond, with plush marsh behind it. Water levels have been high for way too long in the spring and summers the last few years. For now the water is low and falling. I actually pulled up young, healthy coontail with the push pole.
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Crab traps loaded.
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