Sunday, September 28, 2008
Pictures from the North Dakota Duck opener...
I think we can honestly say that our group did ok, this past weekend for the North Dakota Waterfowl opener. Honestly this season will probably not go down as a top five year in my book. I have seen better but it is drier than past years as well. If you look at the pictures you will not see a lot of Mallards, a lot of the ducks we shot this weekend were Teal and Gadwells. The Snows are starting to come down already and I shot a Hutchinson's Goose as well this weekend. Hutchinson's geese don't come down this early in the season, based from my past experience.
That is not to say that there aren't birds this year. This weekend we were lucky to get on some land that will be posted next weekend. The Birds are there for the taking if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves and getting dirty. You are going to have to do a little scouting. Frankly, there isn't a lot of water in many places that used to be hot spots. On my drive back from Devils Lake I checked out some areas in Lakota and Michigan area and the water has definately dried up in a few places or has soy beans or some kind of a crop surrounding it.
Yesterday I saw a big flock of Canadian Honkers sitting on a field 100 yards from the round surrouned by unharvested soy beans. I swear Geese are crafty animals.
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Geese are smarter than they get credit for being. Looks like you cats had a good time.
Yeah Geese are really smart birds and they won't fly in somewhere unless they are sure. The snows actually even more leary than honkers.
That was interesting as I didn't know they called the smallest of the 6 species of Canadian geese the Hutchinson's Goose. When hunting up in Manitoba the first flock of geese to come in were always the small Canadians, about the size of a large Mallard hen. We had always called them the "Crackers", they are noisy and many times land right in the decoys. You had to pass on them so you wouldn't be filled out so when the Giant Canadian Geese started coming in. Glad to see you had a good hunt.
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