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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Ducaholic » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:20 am

Rick wrote:Saw, and glassed to confirm, a flight of wood storks this morning, which was surely an earliest ever stork sighting for me.



What does that mean good, bad, or indifferent?
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:14 am

Haven't a clue. Just not used to seeing them until much later in the summer: a seasonal landmark that's supposed to follow first crop rice harvest, rather than precede it.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby MARSH BEAR » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:32 pm

We did not have many Spoonies in our marsh this past season, but if things are slow and they are around I am not going to pass on them.

Our club totals for the 2019 - 2020 duck season:

Teal 249
Gadwall 463
Pintail 29
Mallards 4
Spoonbill 41
Wigeon 17
Other 3
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:34 pm

That might be a lifetime supply of grays around here.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby MARSH BEAR » Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:18 pm

During the first split Greys are our main duck every year.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby BGkirk » Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:43 pm

Very nice!


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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Wed Jul 08, 2020 5:23 pm

Picked our marsh this morning and detoured to fertilize what's left of the cane around my blind. Still a few sprouts, but fear it a lost cause, 'least in the short run:
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Duck Engr » Wed Jul 08, 2020 5:44 pm

You’re about as heavy handed with the chemicals as I am.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jul 08, 2020 5:52 pm

Those look like Corey's blinds midseason

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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby BGkirk » Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:46 pm

Will be curious to watch you brush it as it does look similar to ours now, which is no complement unfortunately.

We headed to marsh Saturday with lumber shovels and fertilizer


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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:50 pm

BGkirk wrote:Will be curious to watch you brush it as it does look similar to ours now, which is no complement unfortunately.

We headed to marsh Saturday with lumber shovels and fertilizer


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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Darren » Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:35 am

BGkirk wrote:Will be curious to watch you brush it as it does look similar to ours now, which is no complement unfortunately.

We headed to marsh Saturday with lumber shovels and fertilizer



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Prayers sent.


But seriously, be very careful, crazy heat indices predicted for this weekend.


@ Rick......you sure did knock those roseaus back, wow! Far cry from the tall stand we've come to know on blind's far end. Can still see those squealers seemingly all up in it from this past season's hunt.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Duck Engr » Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:57 am

Yep, gonna be a scorcher. We’ve dialed back our ambitions for the weekend because of the heat.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Ericdc » Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:31 am

Duck Engr wrote:Yep, gonna be a scorcher. We’ve dialed back our ambitions for the weekend because of the heat.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am

BGkirk wrote:Will be curious to watch you brush...


I wanted it scabbier, and that's what it'll be. Maybe just a little much so, but we'll see...
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby BGkirk » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:18 pm

Rick wrote:
BGkirk wrote:Will be curious to watch you brush...


I wanted it scabbier, and that's what it'll be. Maybe just a little much so, but we'll see...
While we were way to scabby , some others decided black roofing tar paper was a good start as a back ground. Thankfully it shredded and came off over the winter and I used your “scabbier blind strategy” as an alternative and that’s what we’re going with this year.


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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Ericdc » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:26 pm

Just knock that roof off blind 3.


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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Duck Engr » Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:24 pm

Ericdc wrote:
Duck Engr wrote:Yep, gonna be a scorcher. We’ve dialed back our ambitions for the weekend because of the heat.
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Lol guilty as charged. Working in an office has made me SOFT. My Dad (68 years old) looks at me nowadays like he’s ready to disown me when work in 95+ degrees. I’m pouring sweat and guzzling water and he just keeps on keeping on.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:04 am

Duck Engr wrote:Working in an office has made me SOFT. My Dad (68 years old) looks at me nowadays like he’s ready to disown me when work in 95+ degrees. I’m pouring sweat and guzzling water and he just keeps on keeping on.


I tend to think of yours as the 4-wheeler and riding mower generation. Freaking spooky how many young guys can barely make it down a levee.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Duck Engr » Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:53 am

While I’ve ridden my share of both, from age 12 to 28 I could work all day in any heat without a problem. It’s only been recently that I’ve regressed to toddler heat tolerance levels.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:51 am

Just between us chickens, I've been OK with getting cut back to fewer and mostly half-days in the sun by what the current mess has done to the hatchling market. Been trying to keep active by running the bug around and through friends' crawfish ponds, but with shallow, gator-safe water temps getting soupy, dang dog's starting to drag. I fuss him for being old before his time...

In other news: just two more months to teal season, combines are blooming in the first crop, and rice country smells absolutely wonderful.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Darren » Thu Jul 16, 2020 7:50 am

Rick wrote:Just between us chickens, I've been OK with getting cut back to fewer and mostly half-days in the sun by what the current mess has done to the hatchling market. Been trying to keep active by running the bug around and through friends' crawfish ponds, but with shallow, gator-safe water temps getting soupy, dang dog's starting to drag. I fuss him for being old before his time...

In other news: just two more months to teal season, combines are blooming in the first crop, and rice country smells absolutely wonderful.



Saw a video this morning of a local outfitter running the combine in first crop, just another milestone. Timing about right?
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:54 am

Pretty much.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Darren » Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:47 am

Hearing many rumblings of this in your area? Apple snails in the rice. Knew there were some in the fresh marsh, story below from Kaplan.

https://www.wafb.com/2020/07/22/invasiv ... aSWO9CaZDw
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:21 am

Yep, just the latest in the growing list of PIA invasives. Some crawfish farmers drawing water from the Mermentau had to shut down early because there were so many of them in the traps. Hasn't, to my knowledge, been as much of an issue with the rice crops that are dried out for harvest. Yet. Thornwell farmers drawing from Lacassine Bayou don't seem as bothered. Yet.

We've had a few in our marsh the past couple or three years, but they haven't gotten remotely as out of hand as the horror story I heard about a marsh near the Wax losing all of its vegetation before the snails abandoned it. Yet.
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:29 pm

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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby 5 stand » Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:48 pm

Necks don't look very long on those birds. Looks like crows to me.LOL!
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:29 am

Isolated summer rain cell was doing the "cow on a flat rock" bit on our usual exercise farm this morning, so the bug and I waited it out by taking a tour of some past early teal spots and got into a "Holy crap!" load of woodies in one of them. Broke the binoculars out to see if I could spot some teal in the mix of squealers, mottleds and woodies, and the later was still boiling out of the rice as I uncased them and got out of the truck for better view. We talkin' a bunch and a half of 'em. And great fun to then watch most of the lot tornado down into a nearby unplanted bottom cut of red rice and "trash".

Don't know if it was the duck show or just being cooped up in the truck cab longer than expected before we made our planned exercise round, but the bug was fired up and had a ball chasing shorebirds around the shallows, while I drug around my old arse around a three-mile circuit wishing I'd done so in the downpour, instead of the steamy after-rain sauna. Then again, I'm now up and typing, and he's out cold.

Won't be too many more weeks before there are teal to spur us on...
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby Rick » Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:56 am

One more month until teal...
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Re: Looking ahead...

Postby MARSH BEAR » Wed Aug 12, 2020 10:47 am

I would love to see teal like that during our teal season. We have not had very good luck the past few years during the teal season.
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