Comments on: Urban Hunting http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/urban-hunting.php Duck Hunting Chat has duck hunting tips and goose hunting tips and information, articles, photos, videos and more. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jim http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/urban-hunting.php/comment-page-1#comment-68 Jim Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:56:57 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/upcoming/?p=97#comment-68 Interesting topic. I just recently experienced some "urban hunting" in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ. I live in Chandler, AZ, which is southeast of Phoenix. In the past, this city of 300,000 was a very small community, with cotton farming and dairies being the main industry for many, many years. Not too may cotton fields around anymore. Developers planted doorknobs and grew houses in most of the fields. There are, however, still a few dairies in some of the few remaining areas, and with dairies come alfalfa hay fields. Well, I learned that Canadas apparently enjoy eating fresh alfalfa. While driving to an appointment late one afternoon in early February, imagine my surprise to find a hay field holding 300-500 Canadas. The next afternoon, I took a drive to the field, and couldn't have timed it more perfectly. Not a bird in sight, but that lasted about 5 minutes. For the next 20 minutes, strings of anywhere from 5 to 30 geese slowly drifted across the road and gently settled into the hay field. What a sight it was. I am pretty sure these geese are resident geese from a nearby senior living community, with many, many small lakes. No matter, though. Just the chance to watch these magnificent birds do their thing in the middle of the desert was nothing short of amazing. Interesting topic. I just recently experienced some “urban hunting” in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ. I live in Chandler, AZ, which is southeast of Phoenix. In the past, this city of 300,000 was a very small community, with cotton farming and dairies being the main industry for many, many years. Not too may cotton fields around anymore. Developers planted doorknobs and grew houses in most of the fields. There are, however, still a few dairies in some of the few remaining areas, and with dairies come alfalfa hay fields.

Well, I learned that Canadas apparently enjoy eating fresh alfalfa. While driving to an appointment late one afternoon in early February, imagine my surprise to find a hay field holding 300-500 Canadas. The next afternoon, I took a drive to the field, and couldn’t have timed it more perfectly. Not a bird in sight, but that lasted about 5 minutes. For the next 20 minutes, strings of anywhere from 5 to 30 geese slowly drifted across the road and gently settled into the hay field. What a sight it was.

I am pretty sure these geese are resident geese from a nearby senior living community, with many, many small lakes. No matter, though. Just the chance to watch these magnificent birds do their thing in the middle of the desert was nothing short of amazing.

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