Had some time off in the mornings this past week so I took full advantage and did some huntin! Just a few pics from Wed, Thurs, Fri, and Saturday mornings hunts. Hunted Wed and Thurs with a neighbor and him and I and my eye doc on Fri. Hunted by myself in Charlotte County Sat morning. Wed. we ended up with a single limit from my uncles wetland. One of the drakes had a blue bill....very odd! Thursday hunted same place as Wed. we set up better and had better shootin position. Managed 7 and a goose. Our shootin was poor. We saw mallards, black ducks and a pair of widgeon. Probally 100 ducks tried to get in there. Fri. went to a swamp in the northern part of the County. Were greeted with early vollys from a adjacent field 600 yrds away. Ducks in the cornfield! Feedn up b4 the snow. The other hunters shots flaired the only couple of bunches that looked at the swamp. Managed 3 with one banded susie! Fri night I headed down to Charlotte Co. and was awakened Sat morn with 4 in of snow and blizzard conditions. Tredged 1000 yrds to the swamp late at 7:15 with only a mojo. First ducks were woodies at 2ft off the ground coming thru the bull willows. Shot 2 drakes and the third drake circled and sat down in the beaver slough 20 ft in front of me....Had my limit of woodie drakes on the strap as a bunch of geese picked up off the swamp upwind of me and came over at 20yards. Dropped one goose and was thinkin of packin out when a group of 10 or so mallards chattered above. They saw the mojo and dropped in like they were supposed to be there. Shot 2 drakes and packed out with a goose and a limit of ducks! Brutal, brutal conditions....Thick swamp, black water, black mud, deep mud, briers, blizzard, wind, stinging snow, but awesome duckin! Good end of 09-2010 season!

Blue billed Drake Mallard





Jewlery on the Susie

Snowy Swamp Limit Last day

you will not soon forgettha hunt though...that is real duck hunting stuff there....good fun for sure.

Congrats on the jewlery. Sounds like you had a fine last week. I havent seen any woodrows for weeks.

Awesome end to the season! You gonna mount that blue billed joker?

Na....He went in a crock pot.....probally should have......My wife would probally kill me if one more duck mount came in this house. ........The pic isn't great cause it's off my cell but it had the same coloring and detail as a sprigtail's bill.........Everything else looked....mallard though.

The banded hen mallard was caught and banded Aug 25 2009 in northern Ontario. Estimated to be 3 years. Harvested 1/23/10. She was a long way from home!