Waterfowl Photos

[jparrucci]

Finally moved into the new house and have two new mounts on the wall. Bufflehead and pintail from canada last fall.

[Bryce]

Not so fancy in nodak. Broke ice to set decoys and end ended up with a bunch of scrubs. North wind tomorrow could prove eventful. All the the rain this afternoon/evening could make getting to a spot an adventure.

[Fred_Bear]

Bryce, if you're in ND right now I highly recommend you hunt fields if you have the gear for it. There's a lot of mallards in ND and they are feeding hard all day long... mallard limits in the field are pretty easy right now but only saw the one pintail and a couple widgeons (missed both) for bonus ducks.

Pictures from the extended weekend:

Disclaimer... yes I realize we shot a lot of hens

[Bryce]

Weren't using our fields. Lots of refuge roosts to refuge feeds or crossing into sodak. Rest were roost/feeds in the same field seperated by less than 200 yards. Wasn't meant to be this year.

[jparrucci]

[walleye18]

Heres a pic of my oldest boy putting the 'death grip" on his first goose.

Lots of birds to be had....not too much time left.

sorry its crooked.

[Fowlmouth]

A couple pics from the last 2 days of the season.

[Lunker]

Was fiddling around with my camera tonight and forgot i took this one of a nice widgeon in November.

[walleye18]

That is a cool pic Lunker!

I got one more hunt with a past college roomie in WA - in January....I'll post pics if we have any luck. Wont be like a MN/ND hunt but will be fun nonetheless.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

[Kettle]

Good Looking bird lunker, I got my first two widgeon this year one in MN and one in Manitoba. If I actually get a mature one that is the next bird on the wall.

Kettle

[hillbilly...]

missed the duck season on here but ill post a couple pics so you guys can see my ugly mug

the boy bagged his first duck with a sxs 410 that's now been threw 3 sets hand and soon to be his on his 8th birthday

we got his limit before school took him in came back out with just daughter and shot my 3.

then I shot this guy while on the phone one handed and on the fly with the 20g that's all I used today

Did I mention it was a great day?!

[Kettle]

Hillbilly great photos! The years I have spent hunting snows I have never picked them up over water. Great to see you are getting your kids into hunting. Hopefully if I have kids someday they will have the enjoyment in hunting like yours do!

Kettle

[fishuhalik]

Awesome pics & even better beard!

[hillbilly...]

Thanks guys... daughters second year boys 4th and those snows landed right next to canada deks. They came in on there own and i didnt see or hear them till they were 2 foot off water i was playing with my daughter in the blind

[Kettle]

Can't tell if the birds you are holding are the same as your son's. Are the one's you holding Ross geese?

Kettle

[hillbilly...]

yes my daughter is holding the same birds and nope just reg snows.

[dan z]

Hunted the last early season honker day and a 5 pack did the dance and 1 got away great end to the 5 a day limit. Now I have to wait till Saturday to pull the trigger.

[eyeguy 54]

fun with the fam... happy happy happy

[Bryce]

Good start to 2014.

[fish_hunt_guy]

Wow Bryce those drakes have some plumage! Quite a bit more than usual for opening day wouldnt you say? And is that a pintail on the far left?

[mrg]

my opining day on private flooded marsh. bang on them tomorrow!

[Bryce]

Bonus real birds vanished. Kept the hound busy with filler birds. Geese almost eradicated and very educated in this area.

[dan z]

Saturday morning limit.

Sunday morning leftovers.

[Todd Caswell]

Very poor opener for us, the group that I hunt with has hunted the same beaver pond for 35 years, there has always been two other groups as well, this year when we pulled into our parking spot there were two vehicals parked there, we make the hike back to the pond hoping that they were at least in a different area, nope , sad part was they drug a boat all the way back there, which I'm sure they scared most of the birds off befor legal shooting time, which they apparently didn't know, first shot they fired was 22 minutes befor.. I don't mind getting beat to the spot it's public water but I can't stand a cheater, got pictures of the plates, one of our group's son inlaw is a warden, he's looking into the plates..

[Fred_Bear]

Saturday opener was my wife's first time in the field with me... we had a good time and stayed an hour and a half after limiting just to enjoy the show.

Check out the 1 beautiful greenhead on the far right... one of the nicest colored mallards I've ever seen in September but of course this one showed up when we already had limits on the ground.

This bird seems to have lost its mind!

This goose was so dumb it landed in the spread twice, both times my wife chased it out of the spread and walked to within 10 yards before it would fly away.

[fishersofmen]

Awesome pics! Nothing like knocking them down in a gray t-shirt...

[fishuhalik]

Great pics Fred!! Keep em coming!!

[CForar]

Opener didn't quite go as planned but Saturday my dad, friend and I limited out with 8 woodies and 10 teal. Mosquitos were the worst I have ever experienced! Ducks were not decoying at all so we ditched the pond after bagging only 5 ducks. Moved to a rocky land bridge between two small swamps and shot 4 more. Went back to the truck and ate lunch and watched some teal and woodies dive into a pond tucked away into the woods just a few hundred yards from the parking lot. So we went in there and scared up about 30 birds and shot out remainder of our limit.

I could definitely tell duck numbers werent necessarily as high as previous years. Had to work a little harder this year. Builds character.

Did get my first, second, and third bands of my life though!

[certified jumbo]

Nice ducks. 3 bands. Heck of a morning.

[Lunker]

First time out. Did lots of missing