Those of you who remember the "swing set bird" from this past spring..

Mark(mo)

Mark(mo)

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Well after this extended period where the ground is incased with several inches of ice I managed to get up to the farm. Fortunately I had left around 3 acres of corn standing(1 acre in the duck pool and 2 as a food plots) to help feed the animals over the winter. The ducks barely touched the corn I had flooded but the deer and turkeys have come close to finishing all the remaining off.

A couple I spooked out of the field when I drove in.
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Any way, I made it back to the picnic area and the swing set and what did my eyes see? Looks like Sutton may have to break out his Dr. Dentons to sit in the swing afterall!

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Mark, it looks a few degrees cooler. What's that WHITE STUFF on the ground? :^) After a month, my ponds thawed out the last weekend of duck season but still have ice in the shaded spots. It's been the coldest winter here in 20 years. Now they are getting it all over the midwest and Nor-east, must be that Global Warming they keep talking about on the news :^)

Keep warm!

Dave
 
Looks nippy there too..-9 last night without the wind here..lost heat at the yard over the weekend and it froze a pipe..didn't split it..knock on wood! It was sooooo cold here the last two days ..they canceled a hockey game in Grand Rapids! School has been closed for two days now..bunch of pussies! We had to walk to school in worse weather than this! Oh God..I sound like my Dad!
 
More snow then we have here in CT.

I enjoyed watching the progress of your project. Hope you got your birds this year.

T
 
I wasn't there but the night of opening day I had a father/son at the farm deer hunting (youth season). They guessed that I had 2000-3000 ducks using the field. Due to scheduling around a 2 year old I was only able to hunt it a couple days a week and for the most part it held 200-300 ducks through out the season. The geese never really used it and only when we had the cold snap the begining of Dec. I didn't keep a numbers log but know there were only two bird less days all season. The birds started the year very spooky, actually they acted like late season birds in Arkansas from opening day on. I hunted with some great folks, some old friends, and some new. I was able to share some first hunts for a couple of kids and look forward to adding my kids to that list. The numbers of birds I saw this fall and were able to work were really good and so much to the point I only made it up to the other farm 6 or 7 times(the one with Ira) That farm met our expectations for the year too and, held great numbers of ducks for the first 2/3rds of the season. We have lots to do up there, planting 9,000 oaks this spring and working with water levels to get the right mix of moist soil plants. The way I see it things can only go up from here and they're already as high as I thought they would get. If you're out this way in the fall give me a shout and, if I can't go at least I can set you up with a place to go.
 
Glad to hear of your success Mark. I've been drooling at your project since day 1.

Any success on the youth deer hunt?

-D
 
That is great that the work paid off the first season.

Sounds like work to be done, if you are going to plant 9K oaks. You will have to wait a few years before that 2 year old can be paid a penny a piece for planting them!

T
 
nope, no success for the youth hunt. I don't have any two-man tree stands and, dad wasn't going to let him sit in the stand by himself. It was more just a way for the dad to get his son out and walk around the woods for a few hours that weekend. The project this summer will be at least one two-man stand or blind. During the rest of the deer seasons we killed 3 does and an average 2-3 year old 10 point buck. (the big one a 140-150" buck still lives) We saw him the last day of duck season standing in the flooded corn.
 
I'm afraid we're going to have to plant these ourselves. It's time for some guys to earn some invites for this coming fall!hehehehehehe

It would be neat if Ira and I could take our grand kids on a flooded timber shoot but we know we're not planting them for us.
 
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