Posted By:
Craig-Emory OLD
Guest
rock hall 12-27-2008 18:15
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
saw tons and tons of caanadian geese. some snow geese,and a few ducks. seven man limits on canadian geese
Posted By:
duckaneer
Guest
Upper Patuxent 12-26-2008 18:53
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Good hunt this morning. Large numbers of Mallards observed and moving around. Also large amounts of geese.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent, Anne Arundel, Potomac River 12-24-2008 11:15
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
On Dec 21 pm and Dec 22, observed first large groups of divers in Langford, Cliffs City area (Kent / QA). Saw one flight of 1,000+ scaup moving up and down the river, numerous separate flights of cans at low altitude numbering well over 800 birds total and several rafts hanging out in the general area. Many fewer puddle ducks seen than divers but more have moved in. Took a widgeon off the creek late Monday…a real rarity. Definately more blacks down, few mallards.
Geese most numerous I’ve seen in 15 years between Chestertown and Rock Hall. Also had 3 separate groupings of snow geese in fields along Rt 20 and one “vortex” event ocurring…canadas and snows were everywhere!
Saw very few near Centeville Tuesday afternoon in areas where they have been very strong most of the season???
Blow out tide Tuesday morning and ice screwed up a creek hunt but we did well in the field for geese. Lowest tide ever witnessed in 15 years as well! I suspect it messed up a bunch of folks hunting that morning.
Had excellent goose hunt in AA Co Monday but fewer birds in our immediate area than normal.
Heard of limit mallard shoot on South River but Potmoac below Wilson was slow,,,ice issues ..birds felt to be rafting on larger open water???
Weather definately has pushed some fiwl our way and hopefully it will continue !!!
Merry Christmas
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Fred-Gillotte
Field Editor
Havre de Grace 12-22-2008 08:43
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Greetings: Big push of Mallards arrived here on Friday the 19th. Big flocks seen feeding in bean and corn fields near Oakington. Geese are here big time as well. The Flats are holding good numbers of birds. Had good shooting in upper Kent Cty. Saturday on Puddlers. Goose numbers strong there as well.
Posted By:
Craig-Emory OLD
Guest
worchester county 12-21-2008 10:19
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
hunted marsh not many big ducks, few teal,lots of canadians anf tons of snows, but both were fling high. our group managed to kill six ducks. one bufflehead and five mergansers
Posted By:
Kurt W
Web Member
Sykesville 12-21-2008 10:17
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted canadas yesterday had a 5 man limit by 8:30. Geese were everywhere birds flew from 8 am til 12:30 nonstop probably seen 2,000 plus geese which is very unusual for this area. We also seen well over 1,000 migrating canadas, and even a couple strings of high flyin snows. This morning coming from Eldersburg saw 300 plus big ducks flyin high headin south. There must be a good amount of snow up north to have a push like this. Heading to the Potomac this week to try my luck on some ducks. There should be some around. Good luck to all.
Posted By:
barrelburner
Guest
upper potomac river 12-20-2008 20:34
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
despite very high water today, found backwater canal off of main river the ducks poured into. good shooting and some luck plus good scouting and were able to get two man limit of black ducks and mallards. What an awsome day, defenitly not the norm though good luck to all and merry christmas. Be back at it soon, hopefully doing some more damage.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent & Maryland misc 12-20-2008 12:58
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 35-40 Degrees
Notes from 12/17-19 outings and feedback from others:
Geese numbers up in lower Kent. Very strong in QA especially Centreville area. More snows also seen in lower Kent.
Rains have helped habitat tremendously but most duck reports way down and very disappointing. Taylor’s Island, Deale, Elliot’s in Dorchester …poor. One Nanticoke limit hunt of mixed puddle ducks.
One good report on Kent Island mixed bag and some ducks being shot in northern Kent Co. Our 12/18 duck opener was ugly…worst ever ..saw 8 ducks. Next day, had good goose hunt and saw 2 diver flights of 50+ each along Langford, otherwise, all our puddle ducks that arrived end of first split and just at the last pond freeze up are gone. Similar reports from others despite good wind and gunning weather. The very few ducks we saw were blue winged teal and shovellors !! Go figure, early migrants.
Pretty depressed after nice rest and almost everything fully flooed, fresh food, “good” weather up north, good hunting weather etc. but no ducks.
Snow has moved geese down but need more ice above us apparently to move ducks in if they exist.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
LakeCoveFarm
Web Member
Dorchester county 12-20-2008 08:58
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Geese are everywhere. All through Easton and past blackwater, the fields were full of them. Still not many puddle ducks though – mostly divers.
Posted By:
wwilson
WFC Sponsor
Wicomico & upper Pax 12-20-2008 08:58
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Wicomico on Thursday 12/18 steady with Blue Bills, Pintails, and Mallards active all morning.
Upper Pax on Thursday very slow, most traffic low and in the middle of the River or high and not interested. Some Geese as the weather deteriorated toward mid-morning.
