Sitting across from my grandson last Friday night eating Chinese food at Panda Buffet in Lake Charles, we talked about the ducks and geese we had seen an hour earlier while setting out decoys. I had put him in for Cameron Prairie’s youth lottery hunt, where he drew out for opening day. By all indications things looked promising. We saw a number of white-fronted geese flying about and a pair of northern shovelers that wanted to drop into our pond while we were working. Earlier in the day I received a couple of aerial survey reports from the Louisiana Department ...