Season log

[Rick]

That's a happy camper in that last shot. (But you look like your consons are too tight.)

[DComeaux]

That's a happy camper in that last shot. (But you look like your consons are too tight.)

Good to know other people outside of my family use the word consons too

Oh yeah...

[Ducaholic]

In Avoyelles Parish its calsons..lol

[Ericdc]

Well what does it mean?


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[Ericdc]

Off topic:

My wife's maternal grandma's family is from Crowley and her brothers were part of a few of the rice mills there. She had some old hats. I liked this one.




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[Ericdc]

That's a happy camper in that last shot. (But you look like your consons are too tight.)

Well it was hot and those birds were heavy. I was soaked in sweat after my retrieve.


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[Ericdc]

Hunted with Corey in marsh. Highlight of hunt.


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[Ericdc]

Date: dec 29

Time: hunted till 3 pm

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: partly to clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: 10-20 mph NNW to NNE

Temperature: 40 warming to 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: finally got some new ducks or locals acted better in perfect weather

Waterfowl Activity: lots of mallards, gadwall, and pintail..not many specks and they wouldn't work too well

Waterfowl Responsiveness: ducks very good, specks tough

Hunters: Eric ridge Garrison Robbie

Guns:

Malfunctions: ridges beretta likes to hang up on mallards

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 Mojos on remote, tried Mojos new flock of flickers one of my guys had to try them, and think they were bothering the specks so we picked them up.

Kudos: shooting ducks feet down

curses: specks were weird all day

Birds By Species: 12 gadwall 8 mallards 2 specks (lost a gadwall and a big pintail drake)

The 2nd speck we shot was HUGE

Photo Ops:

Huge speck on left

Beautiful shiny mallard


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[Darren]

Aww yea!

[Ericdc]

Guy on Facebook says it's a Tule goose.


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[DComeaux]

SWEET!!

[Ericdc]

Guy on Facebook says it's a Tule goose.

My understanding is the tule subspecies is normally larger and normally doesn't have as many bars. I've shot a few that I though were juvies until I got them in my hand, Zero bars with a big frame and nice white stripe. I'm no expert by any means but thats my take on what little I've read/seen on the matter

Tule:
Larger frame---longer by several centimeters
less to no barring
darker head and neck

the person on fb that mentioned "compared to lesser" is wrong

there are no lesser specks anywhere close to North America---rare bird,small or smaller then ross goose,big prominent yellow eye ring

everything in North America is greater whitefronted goose---anser albifrons gambelli---mainly what we kill mid-continent---anser albifrons pacifica---pacific greater whitefront---mainly killed in California along with the Tule

there is also the Greenland whitefront---wont see that here

so 5 subspecies
1--Tule
2--Gambelli---mainly what we kill
3--Pacific
4--Lesser---rare and very isolated in range
5---greenland

So what u think it is?


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[Ericdc]

Tule

My point was that someone compared to the lessers we kill---WRONG---we kill greater white fronted geese---lessers are very isolated to a small area in Asia

we kill lesser snow geese---both in white and blue phase,but all lesser snow geese

Ok sweet. Thanks John


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[Ericdc]

Date: dec 30

Time: hunted till 11:40

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: very light SW to dead calm

Temperature: low 30's but rising fast

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: very blessed that my nephew Hunter's first duck hunt was a success and a shot well.

Waterfowl Activity: lots of teal early then big ducks. Not many specks

Waterfowl Responsiveness: very good for ducks, got the 2 specks in close.

Hunters: Eric Glynn Hunter

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 Mojos on remote and 2 pulsators

Kudos: lots of teal and mallards

curses: teal would not slow down so it made for tough shots even at close range.
our little wind had kept on we would have finished.

Birds By Species: 6 mallards 4 green winged teal 2 wigeon 1 pintail, 2 specks

Photo Ops:

Hunter

Glynn with walking stick and mallard. (Glynn has a gold medal from 1968 Olympic basketball team.

Sweet dreams


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[Rick]

A large speck with a broad white face strip and no bars could very well just be a large speck with a broad white face strip and no bars. Friend who's permitted to raise them, tells me that contrary to popular belief they don't get darker with age and are genetically programed to have much the same barring - or little or none - for life. Not saying it's not a Tule or descendant thereof, just that it needn't be.

And though they are Eur-Asian birds, we have, in fact, shot lesser white-fronts in beautiful Klondike, LA. Smaller bird with shorter Ross-like bills, sans warts, and telltale thin yellow/gold rings around their eyes. Been quite a while since I've seen one through the camp, but my parties once killed several from the same blind ("turnaround") over the period of a week or so. Called the speck propagator referenced above, asked about Ross-like specks and learned about the Lesser's ringed eyes.

[Ericdc]

A large speck with a broad white face strip and no bars could very well just be a large speck with a broad white face strip and no bars. Friend who's permitted to raise them, tells me that contrary to popular belief they don't get darker with age and are genetically programed to have much the same barring - or little or none - for life. Not saying it's not a Tule or descendant thereof, just that it needn't be.

And though they are Eur-Asian birds, we have, in fact, shot lesser white-fronts in beautiful Klondike, LA. Smaller bird with shorter Ross-like bills, sans warts, and telltale thin yellow/gold rings around their eyes. Been quite a while since I've seen one through the camp, but my parties once killed several from the same blind ("turnaround") over the period of a week or so. Called the speck propagator referenced above, asked about Ross-like specks and learned about the Lesser's ringed eyes.

It definitely had a larger bill best I remember. I've shot big specks before but nothing like that one.


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[Ericdc]

Curious minds would like to know what was Glynn's affiliation with the basketball team?


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He played. Glynn Saulters. Played at northeast in Monroe and ABA


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[DComeaux]

Beautiful strap of birds.

[Darren]

Perty, perty man. Also neat about the bball medal

[Ericdc]

Thanks guys. 2nd split has been tough for ducks until last 2 days


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[simplepeddler]

Fantastic season!.............Noticed the Tech hat..........boys played some football this year!! .........

[Ericdc]

Date: dec 31

Time: left at 10:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: high to low and heavy with light rain

Wind Direction and Velocity: SSE to S 10 mph

Temperature: a chilly damp 45

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: I would not have gone had it not been a Saturday.

Waterfowl Activity: specks flew before rain but birds have localized on north end of our field and hard to pull them to blind in south wind.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: specks would look but then go back and land on north end where they are roosting. Ducks just don't do much on cloudy days up here.

Hunters: Eric Kevin ridge Joseph

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment:

Kudos: good breakfast and got a speck for Kevin to bring back to guy I buy shrimp from every year in south Cameron.

curses: lack of ducks and local specks

Birds By Species: 1 speck

Photo Ops:



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[Ericdc]

Date: Jan 6

Time: left at noon

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy with heavy sleet early

Wind Direction and Velocity: NNE 10-15

Temperature: 29 and holding

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: biggest duck migration I've witnessed in 2 seasons out of the north

Waterfowl Activity: wish more specks would have been around and hard to compete with the big and getting bigger batch of ducks using field south of us.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: specks good for cloudy days

Hunters: Eric garrison ridge steve

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 Mojos on remote

Kudos: fun hunt

curses: pintails wouldn't finish

Birds By Species: 6 specks 3 green winged teal 1 shoveler 2 gadwall

Photo Ops:





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