Duck weather

As predicted, it was much to wet to even think about harvesting sugar beets this weekend. The southwest got snowed on, so I spent Saturday morning duck hunting about an hour and a half southwest of here. My neighbor and I left at about 5 in the morning and started putting out decoys in the dark at about 6:30. Ducks were already trying to land in our decoys before we were done setting decoys. By the time it was light enough to identify birds, things had settled down a bit. The first two birds to come into the decoys were a pair of Canada geeese. I was astonished when they committed to land and worked to plop right down the landing zone I had set up. I managed to get one, but didn't shoot at the second goose because I wasn't sure if the shotgun load would be big enough to cleanly finish the bird. Well, apparently it was and I finally got my first goose. I weighted it when I got home and it was 11 1/2 pounds. We also took home 6 blue winged teal, one green winged teal drake, and a gadwall.