Sloughs had a lot of snow blown in with a crust on top, they were running in there, A5 is right I’m sure it was because the crust made it very noisy and they could run on top of it.
Been hunting there for 40 years and never had birds run like they were last week.
Most roads were passible
There were plenty of birds, but I think because of the crusted snow they were unable to get under cover, running ahead and hardly any holding for the dogs.
Also walking was very noisy
Just left there yesterday, probably about a foot plus in grass and sloughs with a crusted top. Not hard enough to hold the dogs, very hard on them and me