roscott, we were in and around Great Bend, Kansas. Leased agricultural fields (mostly wheat stubble and cut milo) and CRP land. We used Ben Webster at Big Kansas Outdoors - Waterfowl Guide Service. Three days of pheasant (half-days actually... sunrise to about 1300), and then one afternoon-to-sunset hunt in laydown blinds for Canada and snow geese (in a field north of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge).
This is a video a friend of mine took a couple weeks ago in KS. It was -16 but no wind. Quite a few birds flying. Looked to me like the places I go in IL.