Long weekend.
Set up Thursday night around 9 o clock. By the time we got decoys, electronics and snow covers on it was about 1130 when we got to the house.
Friday morning was cold. Too cold. We saw maybe 500 all morning and they flew from one roost to another roost and never went to a field. Friday night we thought would be much better as there were about 1000 in our field the night before. Well we were wrong. Same story as in the morning. After Friday night's hunt, we decided to move to another field we had permission for.
Saturday morning rolls around and it was cold once again and very windy from the south. We took a break around 11-1 and drove around scouting. Got back to the spread after that and the top layer of ice had thawed and half of our 1000 sillosocks were laying on the ground
Set them back up and finally late Saturday afternoon the birds starting working a little better. We ended up with a few Saturday night. Snow covers came off around 4 Saturday afternoon. Did not see a single migrating flock on Saturday.
We figured Sunday could be real good with a slight south wind and 60 degrees. Well the migrators were in full force Sunday but they were a mile high and had no interest. Left at noon for home.
Throughout the three days, besides the few we shot, we had ZERO birds even circle our spread. The worst weekend we've ever had snow goose hunting but caught up with some guys that I haven't seen since last spring so that was nice at least.
I am probably done for the year. Possibly go out in two weekends but spring planting will be here before we know it.
Good luck to anyone going out in the next week.