All Work and No Play

Had a long day of TSI in store for us over the weekend.  Managed to get some heavy thinning done of an acre or more throughout the course of the day.  Kicked up a family group of 6 does on our way in right where we have been dropping a lot of trees earlier in the month.

The best/worst part of the whole day was that waterfowl were EVERYWHERE all day!  The sky was full of canada geese and a few big groups of snows on our way down to the farm in the morning as the sun was rising.  Once we got close to our property we started seeing ducks everywhere as well.  Found a couple picked bean fields that were full of mallards with some canadas and specks mixed in as well.  Wish we could have been set up in some layouts shooting some geese and watching the ducks funnel in, but the hard work will hopefully pay off next year.  The ducks seemed to provide some encouragement as we were working the chainsaws in our green-tree reservoir by flying over the timber all day.  Can't wait for next season already!

The pictures don't do justice for the amount of ducks and geese using the fields.  For as many there were in the air, there were several times as many sitting in the field.  Flight after flight of ducks continued to funnel in from all directions as we watched.