No ducks today. We hunted only from 7:45 to 9:30, then called it a day. Temps today are 65 degrees and there was not a cloud in the sky. It was the definition of a bluebird day... We had a fair number of ducks flying in our vicinity for the first hour of the day and had a couple small groups thinking about joining our fakes, but none made the fatal mistake. Dan did take 3 shots at some passing overhead (in a "why not" moment), but came up empty. This morning was a good intro for Dad - we wouldn't want him to expect a pile of birds every day! We spent the remainder of the am driving the area to scout and did find 2 good concentrations of ducks. One place is within a safety zone, but the homeowner gave us permission to hunt there - so that is our spot for tomorrow. The second promising spot will be likely be Sunday's spot.
Jax had the duty this morning and was a good boy although he didn't have much to do, other than sit quietly. Because we hadn't been able to scout the cover near our intended spot for this morning, we needed to pack in chairs, stools, layout blinds, and ghillie suits (to be prepared for whatever cover we did find).We used our 'decoy cart' to get all our stuff into the field this morning, so we were happy to have decided to bring it along.
We got back to the house around 2:15 and are eating lunch now. We're planning to hit 3-4 spots for pheasants this afternoon/evening that were recommended by a local Pheasants Forever contact that we made prior to the trip. Let's hope that Winnie & Mag have more retrieving asked of them than Jax did this morning!
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