They are starting to show up in big number up by the river. Finally got a good amount a water in the fields and timber so it should be on now.
For the past week we've seen increasing numbers of mallards but ... all at altitude. They seem to be leaving the river around LST or shortly after, and begin filtering back there around 9 or after.
A few of the flights were so large and the birds so big that at distance I first thought that they were geese. It's embarrassing to begin honking at mallards only to have the dawg look at you like ... "WTH?"