The prospects should be good for goldeneye, bluebill and blacks in the Atlantic Flyway south of the border, from what we've been seeing in Nova Scotia the last couple weeks of the duck and goose season, which ends on our North Shore today.

The northern birds came late this season but it seems they're back in old-time numbers. This morning, blacks were wheeling into the tollers in numbers that guaranteed limits in as long as it took to load and shoot from our ice blinds.