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Despite being that close, he literally had no idea that death and an eager black Labrador lurked mere metres away..
Her incessant whinging told me that Kiera had seen him, and was waiting rather impatiently for me to raise the Benelli so she could be cut loose to do her thing and retrieve him for me.
While we continued to watch him, he casually swam right up to the spinner and briefly snagged himself on one of the trailing decoy lines. Even this did not seem to bother him overly much. I, however, was howling with laughter and Kiera’s eyes were looking at me with an expression clearly saying “What the hell is wrong with you?”
While casually sipping on an everpresent and rapidly emptying can of coke, a pair of mallards were seen to the far left-hand side of me. Silently, I hurriedly put the can down and cursed myself for not seeing the mallards and letting them surprise me. I picked up my call and gave them the biggest, loudest, most drawn-out hail call I could muster.
Initially, I didn’t think it had worked, as they paid me little heed and continued parallel. With some pleading and constant calling the drake’s head slowly swivelled in my direction, and as if using some secret duck ESP, they
