Still Not Ready

Hello again all my technologically advanced and well connected Waterfowl enthusiast friends. A walk outside this morning found southerly winds, mild precip, and a low ceiling. Could this be it? Would the 1.2million in Squaw Creek start to move North? One would hope. But not quite yet. The amount of coffee in the thermos acted as the time teller today. When the coffee was done so was I. A variety of weather this AM and we even had to fire up the HEAT. Sprinkles gave way to rain, which gave way to sleet, which gave way to big North winds. Many a days this past fall we would have loved todays wind's and low ceiling. Ducks by the thousands are everywhere, as well as a decent number of Can's. We did manage to see a dozen or so small bunches of Snows, with each bunch numbering less that 15. Not much of a push going on, but we did run into about 100 Can's that liked the spread. They came gliding from about 2 miles up right over the top of us, not a single wing beat. A great site! The last few warm days have definately pushed some more birds into the area, but the snow geese are still behind. After this front moves out we should be able to hunker down and get some good hunting in. For those of you who haven't been keeping up with Squaw Creek: two weeks ago 40,000 snows, 1 week ago, 600,000 and as of monday (3 days ago) 1.2million. A guy really should get some more bullets! If them baby's come movin' through here that quick I might just wet myself. Now, I know what you're saying, how can you get that excited about Snow Geese? Let me tell you, I've always been one for Conservation. I conserve my energy on the way to the ditch by riding a 4-wheeler. I conserve shells, by taking only high quality, sure shots. I conserve all my money by buying things that are only "on sale" from Cabela's and Mack's. And finally, on my lanyard I carry only the minimum amount of calls necessary to "sweet talk" the birds down...
"The Super Model" - a really high dollar duck call that I had to have that is way out of my league,
"Old Faithful" - a lower dollar but still expensive duck call that sounded better in the store than the really high dollar call,
"Coyote Ugly" - the super cheap duck call that I justified spending money on 'cause it sounded good in the store and was cheaper than the other two (what was I out?),
"Just In Case" - a speckelbelly call,
"Why Not" - a snow goose call,
"Soul-Mate" - a really high dollar canada goose call that I refuse to give up on 'cause it was so expensive, and...yep one more,
"The Fooler" - the ever popular drake whistle that some guy on a duck video talked me into having.
So you see, I do all I can for conservation. For now, we'll keep out watch for the beginning of the push and as always, check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for over 10,000 hits. MBO