Duck hunting

Well its the weekend after Christmas and a great need to hunt again... i mean a 3 day workweek was long enough and i sure could use the exercise. A very good friend of mine, Robert Railey gives me a call and says hey lets go duck hunting... i am in... and my son Cody would also like to go... so come friday we load up and go to his house, load our stuff into his truck and off we go.. we needed to be at the wildlife refuge by 10:30 pm in order to get into the drawing for the next morning, we did not have a reservation so we did the sweat line..which is no guarantee of getting a area to hunt... we made it but a lot of the better areas were taken very quickly.. we ended up in a area close to the sea, Salton Sea. it is very salty there being that the sea is located below sea level..and boy does it rust things fast.. our shot shell were rusted up by noon when we got back to the truck.. The guns are going to get a real good cleaning.. Well from the pictures one is the decoys sitting out in front of us.. the flooded ponds are very muddy and needless to say i sink very deep into the stuff.. I did happen to get a picture of Cody ready to go as he sat in the middle of some salt cedar trees, it was typical dessert hunting.. freezing cold in the morning and hot by noon... I was a beautiful day.. blue bird weather.. a slight breeze, we could have used wind to make the birds fly because they raft out on the sea and don't come into land... Cody bagged a nice spoon bill duck and lost just one.. he hit it and dropped it. We saw it laying on the water.. well later after i had dropped one next to it i wadded out to get mine and his when after picking up my bird i went to were his was and it was not there.... i followed the feather path to the shore and there it is.. i go to pick it up and it gets up and flys away... guess it was not dead enough... i was lucky enough to bag two birds, a cinnamon teal and a green wing teal.. both good birds to eat.. As for Robert well he bagged 6 birds. 4 teal and 2 spoonies. well thats all for now untill the next hunt or adventure..