Remember it's only Mid-November

Sun-up saw the lake iced over again, so the first 1/2 hour at the ditch was spent breaking ice creating a honey hole for the passing over ducks and geese. Only one problem, the passing over ducks and geese didn't really care how good it looked. The morning was spent using phrases such as Con-Trail and Stratosphere. Not a good sign when you're needing a low ceiling or precipitation. No wind at sun-up but around 9AM here it came. Great Northerly winds blew the hole open, could it be now that the passers by would stop for a drink? No thanks! Along with high birds we had the local river ducks requesting fly-by's all morning. They would swing and sail and take off. The best looks we had were while we were setting deeks at shooting time. You could only say, "come on", "you gotta be kidding me", and "what the heck is going on" so many times in the AM until you just give up. So that we did. We did manage to take one duck with us preventing the ever-feared "skunk." The duck taken was one of the most prized of dabbling ducks of the central flyway, the Anas Clypeata, or to the layman an Eclipse Drake Northern Shoveler. For further clarification, Spoonbill. The official name of Anas Clypeata is left for interpretation. Not much in the way of major weather forcasted the next 10 days. The temps are beginning to stabilize, below freezing at night and low 40's during the day. Plenty of North Wind for us Migration hunters, but unless Mother Nature brings some precipitation or low clouds, we're gonna just watch 'em all fly by. There's plenty of season left, and we've yet to see much of a push of Can's. One report from just over the US/Canadian border says they just started seeing the big Northern Mallards and Black Geese. That's great news for us and bad news for them as their season is about to end. Still plenty of time! Check back tomorrow for the latest and greatest of Muck Bottom Outfitters Waterfowl Reporting.