Saturday morning at 5:15 am Blake, Skyler and our friend Ryan stopped by our place to pick me up for a duck/goose hunt. 
We went to a corn field over looking a lake that had lots of ducks and geese on it. We set up nearly 150 decoys and four ground blinds. It was nearly perfect conditions 18-22 degrees, 15 mph wind and snowing fairly hard. Just before sunrise we began to see flocks of ducks and geese swim out into the middle of the lake and take off for a morning feeding. Unfortunately all of the flocks took the same flight path from north to south about a quarter of a mile east of where we were set up. We saw perhaps a thousand geese and ducks in flocks of 20 to 100. After an hour or so one flock came sort of close to us and two geese split off from the rest of the flock and came close enough to our spread to be able to get them. 
We went to a corn field over looking a lake that had lots of ducks and geese on it. We set up nearly 150 decoys and four ground blinds. It was nearly perfect conditions 18-22 degrees, 15 mph wind and snowing fairly hard. Just before sunrise we began to see flocks of ducks and geese swim out into the middle of the lake and take off for a morning feeding. Unfortunately all of the flocks took the same flight path from north to south about a quarter of a mile east of where we were set up. We saw perhaps a thousand geese and ducks in flocks of 20 to 100. After an hour or so one flock came sort of close to us and two geese split off from the rest of the flock and came close enough to our spread to be able to get them. 
By Late morning most of the birds had taken off so we took a break for lunch and hoped we could get some returning flocks later in the afternoon. 
When we returned to the field we changed our 
setup a bit, since the wind had switched direction and to make the decoys more visible and moved our blinds to get a better look at the flight path. We saw dozens of huge flocks come back to the lake that afternoon. It was sort of like standing beside a huge airport and watched plane after plane arrive for a landing each flock touching down every two to three minutes. We didn't get any more shots, but in the distance we could see flock after flock stacked up waiting to land on the same small lake.
When we returned to the field we changed our setup a bit, since the wind had switched direction and to make the decoys more visible and moved our blinds to get a better look at the flight path. We saw dozens of huge flocks come back to the lake that afternoon. It was sort of like standing beside a huge airport and watched plane after plane arrive for a landing each flock touching down every two to three minutes. We didn't get any more shots, but in the distance we could see flock after flock stacked up waiting to land on the same small lake. At sundown we started picking up decoys and were pretty well loaded up within and hour or so. By that time the wind had started to blow a little harder and the temperature had dropped quite a bit. We went back to our place for dinner and decided to wait until the next day to put away the equipment. It was a full day, out in the weather, and I was able to sleep that night pretty well.
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