Call of the Prairie

Saskatchewan waterfowling with High Prairie Outfitters

t could be described only as a sky full of geese. All across the prairie horizon, birds were flowing in rivulets, brooks, streams and rivers. The geese were flooding in from the north, with sunlight flashing on their wingtips as they set out for the fields. The morning flight had begun. We lay prostrate in our field blinds, mesmerized, paying silent homage to the spectacle. Then 50 snow geese broke off and bored in, their high-pitched yelps growing louder as they circled the decoys in ever-tightening spirals.

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