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TScottW99
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:59 pm Posts: 2851 Location: Roanoke
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Ducks are on the move.
For you duck hunters who are on twitter you can follow http://twitter.com/waterfowlercom and get updates on the migration of waterfowl i.e., a report from today... Ducks are on the move in the Central Flyway. The first heavy flights of birds were reported in MT, ND and SD over the past 24 hours.For any non-twitter fans you can check out their home page.... http://www.waterfowler.com/inportal/index.php
_________________ "What gets us jangly is the suddenness of everything. We hunt turkeys because we want to hear them gobble, watch them strut and all that, and we hunt them with shotguns because we want to be close to them when those things occur." - Jim Spencer
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Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:31 pm |
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hendup
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:08 am Posts: 1622 Location: Cartersville, Va
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
Bout time! Been awfully slow around here so far!
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Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:26 pm |
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Coalman
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:09 pm Posts: 1305 Location: Seacoast NH
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
You may want to give it another week or so. It is 66 degrees in coastal NH right now. There are no frozen bodies of water. The beaver ponds and all open. I bet a few woods ducks will be added to someones bag when our late coastal season opens.
Looking forward to this month and next for our late goose season here. We need the local ponds to freeze to make field hunting the best.
Good luck to all you duck commanders.
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Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:16 am |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3806
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
long long way from ND SD and MT to the places I frequent. I will say that the next few days of artic air should move some eastern birds as well but the truth is that you just have no idea when ducks will move unless it gets in to single digits, with heavy snow cover, in all of new england and Pa and Ohio...now if that happens you might want to go duck shooting as opposed to the ususal duck hunting . 2 cts
_________________ "even after almost a half-century of hunting of the noblest game bird I am going to confess that I am still in the kindergarten; and I doubt if any human being ever acquires a complete education in this high art."
- Archibald Rutledge
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Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:28 pm |
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Coalman
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:09 pm Posts: 1305 Location: Seacoast NH
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
It is a winter wonderland here now. We got about 8 inches of snow yesterday that got beat down to 4 by ending in heavy rain.
It won't be long. They are predicting 19 degrees tonight, 16 tomorrow night and 18 degrees Saturday night. Only the fast moving rivers and big ponds and lakes will have open water.
The ducks will be heading south soon.
_________________ Keeper of the Mountain Province Division Tenth Legion
Your eye in the Northeast sky Coalman's Online Blog http://coalmansblog.com
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Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:49 pm |
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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am Posts: 2632 Location: Campbell Co., VA
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
Gobblenow wrote: long long way from ND SD and MT to the places I frequent. I will say that the next few days of artic air should move some eastern birds as well but the truth is that you just have no idea when ducks will move unless it gets in to single digits, with heavy snow cover, in all of new england and Pa and Ohio...now if that happens you might want to go duck shooting as opposed to the ususal duck hunting . 2 cts Somehow that's not terribly encouraging to a swamp-sloggin', hard-HUNTING guy and his very tired, feather-lusting dog . . . Barely anything with webbed feet in the best spots I have so far . . .
_________________ "I'd rather look bad doing something hard than look good doing something easy." -- Tom Kelly
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:05 pm |
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Coalman
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:09 pm Posts: 1305 Location: Seacoast NH
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
15 degrees here now with a NW wind at 15-20 mph. The only open water left is the big lakes, fast moving rivers and salt water.
The sky should be black with ducks and geese in VA soon.
PM, Have Max retrieve one for Bay.
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:53 pm |
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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am Posts: 2632 Location: Campbell Co., VA
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Re: Ducks are on the move.
Coalman wrote: 15 degrees here now with a NW wind at 15-20 mph. The only open water left is the big lakes, fast moving rivers and salt water.
The sky should be black with ducks and geese in VA soon.
PM, Have Max retrieve one for Bay. I'll be happy to have him retrieve one at all!!!
_________________ "I'd rather look bad doing something hard than look good doing something easy." -- Tom Kelly
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:52 pm |
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