Don't care WHERE...and don't wanna know WHERE... :lol3: You guys seeing much evidence of bird movement in the state?
The weather has been fairly mild and I've seen a few groups of Geese at the migration altitude and what appears to be local ducks huddling up. Beyond that...Teal have moved on (at least the BW's) and I've not seen any GW's.
Did take 4 Woodies in an unlikely spot for them a few weeks ago but they were probably locals.
Not a lot happening my way. Did start to see a few greenwings start to move in last week on our marsh and our woodies have mostly moved on.
last week saw a few mallards and blacks work in to the area on that minor coldfront. a bit of scouting n Sunday morning found their happy place. Taking nephews deer hunting on saturday, hope the mallards and blacks stay where they are at on Sunday.
seen some geese moving around no duck numbers but with daylight saving time not much light left to scout at night after work, this is around mansfield area
Good job on the mallards Mike. I was out again today hoping to see something different again but no deal. In fact - despite being cloudy all day with mist it was REALLY slow from 7:30 on.
I popped a hen at 9:00 and stuck out out till the end of the day. Last two hours in the rain they were loading up. But no Greenies or Gadwalls.
Decided to give the greenwings a go on Sunday. they had been adding to the flock over the last week. Shoulda tried them a bit earlier as atleast 1/2 of what was there had already gone.
Did have a good hunt and took home nine for the crew.
Noticed birds over the last week have been grouping up, flying a bit higher and a tad more picky what they drop into. Had group lookers but less committers.
With the fantastic weather this morning thought I'd triple the number deeks and give them something different to look at.
Seemed to work but I give some credit to the gray and drizzle. :lol3:
Hope folks are gettin' out and killing birds. :thumbsup:
Starting to see numbers increasing in my neck of the woods (W Lk Erie/Sandusky Bay). Spent most of the last 9 days hunting in and around Sandusky Bay and, while my field observations do not necessarily jive with the ONDR abundance report, I do not have the benefit of an aircraft, so they are seeing more than I can!!! But, there are a lot of ducks ariving by the day.
If you're into Mergansers and have a small boat, you can damn near kill your limit in two or three shots on Sandusky Bay when they fly by within the first hour of light. There're are literally thousands and thousands of them on Sandusky Bay and they buzz the shoreline at close to F-16 strafing run velocity. My son kept asking what those ducks were. I told him they're not what we're after, but he wanted to harvest one anyway, since he had not done so yet. I told him he will eat what he kills and he agreed, so the next flock that buzzed us at Mach 2, I let him take a shot. I told him to shoot towards the front, because he's still learning to lead. He pulled the trigger and two drop in one shot, of course he now thinks he's Tom Knapp!!!! :lol3:
The only problem, is we didn't have a boat, so on my way out to pick them up, I got out a little too deep and flooded my waders -- that was miserable hunting the rest of the morning. Thank God it was Saturday and very warm for this time of year.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about with the ODNR Abundance Reports, here's a link:
We haven't seen a whole lot as far migration goes. We've seen a couple birds that have been fattened up for the winter but it seems like numbers aren't where they should be. We got kinda lucky Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we got 3 Greenies and 10 Mallards. Sunday we got 4 widge and 5 Mallards. We were hunting some flooded timber.
Didn't kill any ducks today BUT there were a bunch of migrant geese,divers and mallards sitting on the open water. They just weren't moving. Way to nice of a day. Boats would go by and they would just move over a hundred yards or so. I'm talking hundreds of each, I do believe its starting. HNT/FSH you getting tired of killing ducks yet?
Didn't kill any ducks today BUT there were a bunch of migrant geese,divers and mallards sitting on the open water. They just weren't moving. Way to nice of a day. Boats would go by and they would just move over a hundred yards or so. I'm talking hundreds of each, I do believe its starting. HNT/FSH you getting tired of killing ducks yet?
I'm hardly tired of killing birds...lol....have a lot of hunts to make up for. :lol3:
Land owner and boy came out this morning - took these 5 greenheads by 9:00, they left and I stayed till closing only to pick up 1 more bird for the day.
Some ducks moved in near me but no geese but got back from N.D and there were still millions an geese up there. And the hole way home seen birds. Not frozen and still fields with no snow. So it may bee a bit b4 the geese get here.
Swans are really something cool to see around here. There's one in a park in Springfield, showed up a year or two ago and never left.
Anybody know if the lakes are starting to freeze?
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