Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest
Central Kansas 02-04-2008 20:33
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Hunted this past weekend in the Mcpherson area we ended the weekend with 24 birds between 5 guys. Most of the birds were coming out to feed around 8:30 and heading to water in very large flocks between 11:30 and 12:30. We saw very little migration activity. Most of the birds were cacklers, with good numbers of snows and white fronts mixed in. Noticed good numbers of birds in the Marion and Emporia areas.
Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest
01-31-2008 20:44
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Art, I wasn’t that far west today. Southern Kansas was in blizzard like conditions today. My mom said she recieved about 5″ inches in the Wichita area with major drifting. My buddy in the McPherson area(about 50 miles north of Wichita) reported only 2-3 inches of snow with a minimal amount of new birds arriving. He didn’t think that they lost too many birds with this front. In northeast Kansas around Lawrence I did see several large flocks of geese feeding in different places from thier normal fields. Which leads me to believe that we did have some birds move into our area. I will be hunting in a couple of different locations this weekend and I will report back on 2-4-08. Good luck to those in the field.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
central Nebraska 01-31-2008 20:11
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mdavis, yes it helps. Keep us posted of when they are pushing north. Did you see anything happening today along 183 in northern Kansas? (thursday)
Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest
Reply to Flyway 01-29-2008 21:45
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Most of the geese in the state are in the south central part between Wichita, Hutchinson and McPherson areas. These birds showed up a couple of weeks ago and have been steadily increasing with the temperatures jumping around they will move to several different areas in just a matter of a few days. Contacts in the middle part of the state are reporting large numbers of kills on warm sunny days with open water. In the northeast part of the state there is very limited open water but we are seeing more birds with decent numbers beginning to arrive. We did have a good hunt on 1/27/08 with three of us limiting out in 3 hours. Bad shooting. Hope this helps.
Posted By:
FlywayStalker
Guest
Nebraska / Kansas 01-29-2008 15:00
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Is anyone seeing any decent groups of Canada’s. I was down around Milford a few weeks ago and saw a few but my son in Junksion City seems to think alot of them left with the last cold spell.
Posted By:
Bernie-Jones
Field Editor
Southern reno county 01-03-2008 18:26
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We hunted the whole week up to the 30th. We hammered the ducks. We saw hundreds after hundreds of mallards. We got limits for 5 days in a row and bagged several nice pintails with a few reds and canvasbacks. Geese are swarming the fields north of Wichita and south of Wichita. Sorryn for the late report.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
south central Nebraska 01-02-2008 20:40
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I’ve been reading your Kansas reports. We all have the same thoughts. Where are the ducks? I don’t have the answer, but I can tell you that central NEBRASKA never saw them.The western quarter of Nebraska had a great season as far bird numbers. Central NEBRASKA had a disaster. The eastern third had a good push of birds about the 2nd week of December, then slowly lost them to the long cold spell and snow. My friend at Pierre S.D. tells me their season is just like central NEBRASKA’S, poor, and they are still waiting for birds to arrive. They have backed their season up thinking that the birds will eventually show up, just like Nebraska.
It comes down to two things.
1. the birds changed their migration route starting in North Dakota or Canada and shifted to the east or west
2. the birds don’t exist.
I don’t understand why the Fish and Wildlife folks haven’t offered an explanation for this. I think the bird band program would shed some light on this .
[Edited By Art-Marshall on 2008-01-02 20:42]
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Ninnescah River – Sylvia 12-31-2007 15:12
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Well fella’s, we hunted 2 more days since my last report (Thurs & Sun) and nothing has changed a bit. Still heavy snow cover and frozen flat water due to the temps remaining below 32 most of the day. There are simply no ducks in our Central part of the state other than a few straglers here and there. Probably saw 30-40 total ducks each morning and they were patterned quite well. Had 1 lonely gadwall drake drop in on Thurs and 1 lonely greenhead drop in on Sun……….that was it!!
Sorry to say this was by far the worst season we have had at our places since I’ve lived here. Optimism was high going into the season with all the good brood reports from the Praire Region, but didn’t pan out for us at all. Every year is a new year and the eternal optimizm will return I’m sure after a long lay off this spring & summer, it always does.
Not sure how much I will hunt during 2nd split (Jan 19-27), will all depend on my scouting results prior too. If I do hunt, I’ll report our results.
Happy New Year and remember, there’s always “next year”……….
Take care all.
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Ninnescah River – Sylvia 12-26-2007 15:48
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted the Ninnescah River again this morning given all our marshes are frozen. The river was wide open as always and still a fair amount of snow still on the ground. Trying to learn from the success of some other hunters north of us, we only put out about 18 magnum dekes (floaters and full body motion shells) NO mojo’s. Tucked the dekes tight against the north bank (north wind at 20mph today)……….. In short, no interest at all by the few birds that we did see. Tried no calling, light calling and aggressive calling, nothing would work. One very stupid drake gadwall dropped from no where into the blocks, our only bird of the day!! Don’t really know waht to say at this point, we always smoke ’em when conditions are like this, but not this year.
Season closes on Sunday for the 1st long split, reopens on Jan 19th for 9 more days. Can’t wait, yeah right……
Art, we hunt private marshes on the East and South sides of Quivera Wildlife Refuge, which is in Central KS. As noted in previous reports, we hunt the North Fork of the Ninnescah River when all the flat water locks up. On a map, we are 28 miles west of Hutchinson, KS (NW of Wichita and SW of Salina) I enjoy reading your reports and do so often, keep up the good work as I’m sure it helps your fellow NE hunters.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
nebraska 12-25-2007 08:35
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GREG,,,,,,What part of Kansas are you in ?
