Sunset Sunrise

Friday night as I arrived home I notice that there was a nice sunset so I drove down the lane to the lake and took a few shots as the sun lit up the sky.

I could hear the geese before I saw them, but I was able to get a couple of nice photos of a small flock of geese flying across this nice background.

The geese headed from south to north, but eventually turned and headed east toward me.

I got a shot just as they were flying over my head.

Later that evening Blake called to see I wanted to go goose hunting in the morning. We got to the field where we planned to hunt a little after six o'clock. We got our decoys, layout blinds and the rest of our gear to the spot and set out well before light.

Goose hunting in a field is a little different than other types of hunting. Geese for one thing make a lot of noise when they fly so you can hear them quite a ways off and usually have time to jump into your layout blind.

So you often can stand up and walk around scanning the sky for some indication that geese are anywhere near by. It is also possible to ask questions like "does this look like a goose?"

On this particular day we did a lot of standing around.

After a while the sun started to rise lighting and coloring the sky and clouds.

It was a beautiful morning. Perhaps a little colder than it needed to be. There weren't many geese flying that day, so there was a lot of waiting .

The sky and clouds were pretty though

Layout blinds are fairly comfortable, relatively speaking. ours are set up to look like corn stocks, so you have to cover them with something else if you don't have enough corn stocks in the background. In this case old bed sheets work reasonably well. You have to dress lightly while you are carrying all the gear out into the middle of a corn field. Often you break a sweat and have to be careful not to get too wet, it was about 10 degrees that day, When you have everything set you have to put on more layers and lay on the snow covered frozen ground for four or five hours. It's great fun when the birds are flying. We didn't have any birds bother us that day. We didn't have to clean our guns. It was a nice morning. We got some exercise and saw a nice sunrise.

See isn't this fun!!! Let me know if you want to go next time. You have to carry your own stuff though.