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Date: 9/12/20

Time: left around 9:45

Location: Corey's lease

Cloud Cover: cloud bank to East hid sun until around 8

Wind Direction and Velocity: NNE 5-7, decent

Temperature: comfortable then hot

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: curfew enforced on 27 kept us from getting started till about 7

Waterfowl Activity: decent flight till 8

Waterfowl Responsiveness: not good. We were either in wrong spot or they were seeing us, big bunches would push off, shot 1's and 2's

Hunters: me, brothers Corey and Ryan, nephew Simon (he's 8) and 3 other friends

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Boone did real well on a few blinds

Special Equipment: had several mojos and about 3 dozen teal decoys

Kudos: we were able to hunt

curses: thankfully saw the big cottonmouth laying where I was gonna sit, had it been before daylight...who knows

Birds By Species: 8 blue winged teal


Photo Ops:


Boone


Simon and the nonvenomous snake we found already expired.

Marsh treasures


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Cotton mouth remark gave me the willies!

Way to persist and get in on some action

Duck Engr wrote:Cotton mouth remark gave me the willies!

Seeing a dog swimming this time of year did the same for me.

He saved us several birds, didn't see any gators. Corey's call.


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I don't know enough about gators to know if salt surge kills or pushes them all out of an area. But I do know you probably won't see the one that's hunting and takes a dog from below. All those I know who've been in that awful situation saw was the splash.

Rick wrote:I don't know enough about gators to know if salt surge kills or pushes them all out of an area. But I do know you probably won't see the one that's hunting and takes a dog from below. All those I know who've been in that awful situation saw was the splash.

During the plane ride I saw plenty of big ones belly up, but they were not near our place. I’ve seen small ones along the road ditch still alive so I know some made it.


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You're bolder than me.

Just woke up to my wife telling me to get the gun. We've had more backyard chicken predators this summer decimating our flock than I've ever had. I've trapped 3 possums but the coons are the problem. I just blew one out the side of the coop with a properly placed low brass 20 gauge dove shell. Trapped 1 Tuesday night with the 2 dead chickens it left in coop. Will reset trap in the morning with the 2 dead ones this one got before meeting its demise.

We've had chickens for several years now and I've never lost so many. I can't seem to fortify my coop enough to keep them out so I guess I'll let them go back to free ranging inside the back yard fence? I've lost 4 in 2 nights having them in coop for "their protection".

When you wake up at 3:30 with your wife hunting a gun, it gets the adrenaline going. Might as well post about it huh.

Tuesday night's take.


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Ericdc wrote:When you wake up at 3:30 with your wife hunting a gun, it gets the adrenaline going.

My folks had chickens, pigeons, pheasants, peacocks, and occasionally other birds. Coyotes, foxes, hawks, my mom even killed a mink that was clamped on a chicken's ass. It was predator central.

Good luck getting rid of the problem critters.

Amazing what critters can figure out for a meal! Sounds like you have a good handle on the control, and hopefully, no more middle of the night wake-up nudges from your bride I've been cursed with Armadillos, digging grubs in my yard, and have trapped 3 so far and a couple of opossums. Been fighting the bastages for a couple of years, they are not easy to trap, and finally configured a bottleneck of sorts, that they have to travel through from the woods to my yard. Have spread the yard with what i thought was enough poison to kill the grubs, but the Armadillos keep coming.