4wks ago I went out, still winter. another week, and the fields were running with water, the wind had blown open a few ponds, the usual roosts were solid ice, nary a bird except honkers. Two wks ago there were honkers, ducks , cranes, I 'd heard but not seen specks, heard some snows and spotted a small number. My partner had spotted enough for a shoot that AM, they didn't show again in the area that nite, he was 60 mi south of me. Had to work the Sat the next weekend, Sunday AM was a snowstorm, didn't go anywhere. My partner had located snows, could hear them on a field, too foggy to see them. This last weekend, lots of swans, few ducks, few honkers, some cranes, maybe a dozen snows This AM, I am reading that the specks have made Peace River area. I'll go look again this weekend, hard to believe that many birds blew thru already. I guess it is possible, but, maybe they don't go back the way they came down either. Or, they just jump that area in the spring. That's birds for you.
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