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Hunted NW ND last week, found good numbers of birds, after looking for areas that had decent production. Took a bit of looking, each day we did better, some areas were devoid of birds, despite good looking habitat. Kind of disturbing how much cattail habitat is being mowed. giant bails of cattails left out, is there a use for this? Hard to believe these areas will be useful, arable land, in the dozen years we have hunted up there, there is no doubt these spots will be under water or swamp land as soon as they get some moisture. It is amazing how the area has been through horrible drought, and unprecedented flooding, followed by drought within a 10 year period.
That said, I do appreciate that there are farmers up there that are willing to let hunters access their property.
All together, it was well worth making the trip. Besides the areas we hit the first 2 days, all roosters we shot were young birds from this year.
Top pic is my 15 YO GWP. She mostly sleeps, but still got a walk around the farmstead twice a day, even got up some hens!!
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:roll: Come on let's see some pictures and hear some stories 
My season starts on the Macy Indian Reservation tomarrow(opens a week earlier than the Nebraska season)--hopefully I'll hit something, so I can post a couple pictures of the dogs 
Didn't hear much shooting for opening morning. Bird numbers seem to be way down this year 