Sixth @9:55

The first dog, #99, officially began this test at 9:55 a.m. under cloudy skies with a hint of sun. The temperature is currently 66 degrees with a southeast wind approaching five miles per hour.

This is a land/water blind with the running line on top of a sloping hill. We've moved to the left of the line to the marks and up the hill, thus crossing the lines to all previous marks as the line to the blind is negotiated. The line will skim the two large evergreens (they're to the left) that were just shy of the short retired holding blind in the fifth test, then continue down to the piece of water that was en route to the long retired from test five. Two brushy shrubs have been added to the right of the line at the edge of the water and they provide an evident right-hand edge. It appears the dog must get in to the left of these bushes and then slice through the water, exit and cross the dirt road that traversed the fifth, run beside water to the left into heavier cover that climbs a lower mound into more slope up to the base of the next mound where the bird, a drake mallard, is planted at 280 yards.