Where are the ducks????

[skeet]

Talked to a friend yesterday... He has a place not too far from where i live that he "hunts" ducks on.. Quite a nice place.. 34 ponds with millet and milo 250 acres of standing flooded corn and lots of other waterfowl areas on the Chester River here in Md. He usually hold in excess of 30-35,000 ducks on his acreage(3500acres). This year?? Not even 3,000....and the ducks call this place heaven...Where do ya think they are?? In some biologist's dreams??? I know they can bypass someplaces and change their habits...but I do know ducks...and they aren't going to stay away from an area like this if they are anywhere near the area...and they will come back to a place like this...been doing it for 25 yrs.. Are they going to change overnight?? Naw!! They just ain't the amount of ducks out there that the powers that be want ya to think.