Smartphones and 10-day weather forecasts make being a guide a lot harder.  When the weather doesn’t look good the phone starts ringing. I knew better, but I was getting it from both ends. My guides and our hunters. All but a couple we have been able to hunt NW MO or SW IA by the last weekend of February. 

The birds flew north, almost like a normal spring. Most of what was shot were adults, at least in Jim’s field. 

Tomorrow I head for Iowa. Birds are already there.