Saturday, my Father, Brother and I went back to Miller, SD to close up a couple of our houses for the winter and to see how the birds faired the storm. Well, the snow is deep! Most of our tree belt had 10-15 foot drifts in them, the corn stubble is better the 2 feet deep in most spots and the better part of all cover is filled... We saw 1,000 of birds out feeding in the blown over areas like soybean fields and shorter corn stubble. Standing milo and slews seemed to still have good enough roosting cover. There's no doubt this is gona hurt some birds, but I think as a whole they should do fine. We did manage to get our limit but man we had to earn them in that cold and deep snow!
fyi.... Most all the birds we took had a BUNCH of fat on them, more then I've ever seen.
Steve
(Yes, this was the temp, not the wind chill when we left that morning!)
(Deep!)
(Very tired dogs, that snow is hard on them!)
fyi.... Most all the birds we took had a BUNCH of fat on them, more then I've ever seen.
Steve
(Yes, this was the temp, not the wind chill when we left that morning!)
(Deep!)
(Very tired dogs, that snow is hard on them!)
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