The end of the 2019-2020 waterfowl season

Monday was 60 degree's and I stayed home to get the weekly stuff done around the house. Tuesday Cliff and I had made plans to head to town, throw out my whole trailer, stay all day with a complimentary lunch being made in the blind. We had some goose movement throughout the morning and the spread looked great, but the geese just didn't want to commit with the A-frame in the field. They weren't flaring they just weren't too sure about it. So we packed in the A-frame and moved the spread to the field/wood edge and kept on with the hunt, after lunch in the blind. Once we got the spread concentrated and moved to the edge of the field, the geese would come by but still wouldn't finish. We had one flock go out only to be called back for another look 3x's before sliding off. Oh, an Eagle.
So, that Eagle apparently was around for most of the day, which may explain why we couldn't get a flock to finish. We even had 2 flocks land 500 yards to the East of us, only to be chased out by the Eagle, which actually helped our cause. Anyway, the end of shooting time was getting closer and closer when we finally had a single on its way into the spread. The bad news was we were standing at the corner of the field looking for geese. So we hunkered down, I gave a couple clucks and moans and this goose came right in and landed just outside of our furthest decoy. He was a little far out so I didn't call the shot. I told Cliff to just run out there and when he jumps up to shoot 'em in the face. Well, he got the running part right but when he got to within 5 feet or so this goose was still on the ground almost challenging Cliff. Cliff stopped the charge, confused, looked back at me and asked what he should do, I told him to keep after the goose. Well, the goose finally got up and half flew through the spread looking to land again closer to the woods. I stood at the ready, that goose was not getting away, while Cliff unloaded his shotgun. Thankfully he completely missed my decoys and managed to wing the goose. So we got one, I missed the pic but it would've kinda looked like this....

So, we packed up and headed home with one goose to show for a day's work. Wednesday I had some more stuff to take care of in the am but was going to head out for the last evening hunt. Unfortunately, I got to the field late enough to see the geese I could've shot had I been there an hour or two earlier. I stayed until sunset all the while the weather turned from lite snow to a complete whiteout by the time I was picking up and heading home. I didn't have any opportunities but still made it out.... there's always next year.
 This is what I woke up to this morning. 😢

Been waiting for snow all year and finally got it after my season was over

Watch out Coyotes I'm gunnin' for you next....

Addendum to last week's post

Tuesday after official sunset and the end of shooting time, we got out of our blinds and started packing up, all the while watching for the geese to start flying as they always do. I looked to our East and saw 4 deer in the field no more than 40 yards from us. I quietly told Jake to look over, and when he did he saw the deer and immediately took off at a full run, in all his gear.
 You remember Jake right?

Well, the deer saw him and started crossing the field from our right to left at a full-on run. 4 deer turned to 5 then 6 and Jake was still running in a straight line to the East. As he ran the deer kept pushing to the east and continued crossing from right to left. By the time he got to around 100 yards, I wasn't sure why he was still running until I saw the last deer. It was a yearling desperately trying to catch up with the rest of the herd. This whole time I was very confused, but laughing uncontrollably with the unfolding of the last minutes of daylight. When Jake finally successfully chased off the last deer, he got back to inform me that he has always wanted to catch a deer and wrestle it to the ground. I'm telling you, this was hands down the funniest thing I've seen this year. By the way, Jake informed me that yearling was a spike with 3" nubbins. LMFAO 😂