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THEY'RE ON THE WAY!

By: Ron Wilson

December 22, 2008.... Hunting Ducks this year has been dismal at best but things are starting to look up for Christmas, lets hope we get our Christmas goose and a full bags of ducks by the 24th.

Last Wednesday the birds came through in numbers and we had good bags that day and Thursday. On Friday it was a beautiful day for waterfowl hunting but the birds that were here were nowhere to be found at the reservoirs, nor at a couple private clubs in the grasslands. It seemed that the birds had just been traveling through migrating on the way to Mexico.

The specs have not arrived yet from the northern part of the state but have arrived in the Sacramento Valley area and we are looking for them to show up daily around Modesto and the grasslands as they winter in the central valley.

The local honkers have grown way too smart and are hiding up in the mountain ponds and lakes like Don Pedro, McClure and New Melones.

With the storm door open and the freezing going on in Washington and Oregon the waterfowl should be showing up in numbers any day now. With that in mind I will be out there watching the skies daily if the dam fog lets me.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious,  socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wish.

To My Regular Readers and  Friends: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!