Only two members showed up today to hunt, Wayne Owen and me.  Wayne had four guests so we took his boat and mine.  We hunted together and went to hole 5.

 

About 6:45 a.m. five Mallards started working our hole.  After a couple of circles they fell in the hole just to the north of the blind.  Wayne and friends worked on them and three out of the five, all drakes, fell to their guns.

 

At 7:30 a.m. Wayne and I heard some Gadwalls binking behind us.  This is the sound they make, "bink, bink, bink".  Wayne says they sound like taxi-cabs and act like taxi-cabs, also.  We called at the Gadwalls and gave up on them because we never saw them.  Shortly after that, two Mallards came gliding into the hole from behind the blind and both of them got shot.  Wayne said, "Those are the strangest looking Gadwalls I have ever seen".

 

Later in the morning about 9:30 a.m. I saw three Mallards coming from the north and heading south across our hole.  I started calling to them and they made several circles.  At one point I thought we had lost them, but now instead of three Mallards, only one Mallard drake stayed with me.  He made one circle and glided into the south end of the hole where I was waiting for him.  I shot at him through some brush in front of me and missed, then I killed him with my second shot when he came clear of all the obstructions.

 

That duck made our sixth Mallard and we were through for the day except for looking a lot of empty clear blue skies.

 

We don't know where the ducks are!!!  But Wayne and I will be waiting for them!

 

More later.