This past weekend marked the last day of duck season. As most 'fowlers have reported, numbers have been fairly low in the area and has made it difficult to find birds. Nonetheless, it's been a great season. Saturday morning marked a mild, bluebird sky morning. Seven of us climbed down into layouts and it wasn't long before ducks were dumping in. Before the geese started flying, we had four mallard drakes in the bag. The geese were flying early and throughout the morning we watched a couple hundred birds skirt our location with no intent of dropping in. We did have a half a dozen groups work into our spread to a rude awakening. We ended the morning with ten geese. After the hunt we realized, much to our surprise, one of the mallards was a federal banded bird. What a way to wrap up the 2012 season!
This past weekend marked the last day of duck season. As most 'fowlers have reported, numbers have been fairly low in the area and has made it difficult to find birds. Nonetheless, it's been a great season. Saturday morning marked a mild, bluebird sky morning. Seven of us climbed down into layouts and it wasn't long before ducks were dumping in. Before the geese started flying, we had four mallard drakes in the bag. The geese were flying early and throughout the morning we watched a couple hundred birds skirt our location with no intent of dropping in. We did have a half a dozen groups work into our spread to a rude awakening. We ended the morning with ten geese. After the hunt we realized, much to our surprise, one of the mallards was a federal banded bird. What a way to wrap up the 2012 season!
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