The birds are starting to arrive back in Nome, and I keep thinking of Psalm 34.  "Taste and see that the Lord is good."  We got our first duck a mallard yesterday, on a beautiful blue sky day with a temperature in the 50's.

After getting  late start because of a dental appointment for teeth cleaning, we finally got going about 10:30.  My friend, Sean and I got out to sight in our rifles, my .17 HMR with a new BSA Sweet 17 and Sean's .204 Ruger.  It took us about 9 shots each to verify zero at 100 yards.

It was just such  gorgeous day, and Sean had heard that friends had sighted geese, so we were anxious to see if we might be able to see any kind of waterfowl.

We didn't see any on Kogarok Road to above Dexter, we saw a cow moose and her two calves and noticed a few seagulls starting to sit on their nests, but no waterfowl, so we headed back to the coast to go and check the Council Highway. 

What a beautiful day, sunshine and clear as far as our eyes could see and a temperature of 50 degrees, we were sweating in our Underarmor and just a shirt and pants.

We drove out as far as the heavy equipment has gotten to just before Cape Nome and saw a few Ptarmagin, one was starting to change with a patch of brown feathers between it's white head and white boy feathers.

We turned around and as we neared Hastings Creek, we noted two none seagulls.  We checked them out and found them to be to puddle ducks, the first we had seen this year.

We harvested a Male Mallard, it will indeed be nice to "Taste and see that the Lord is good tonight."  Thank you Lord for this blessing of your provision and for loving us so much that this is the desire of your heart, to nurture us and to give us an expected end.

I pray God's provision, grace and love in your lives today.