Posted By:
cutback
Guest
Hoopers Island 11-25-2009 12:09
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 45-50 Degrees
I hunted with 2 friends yesterday in the marsh around Hoopers. Very high tide flooded the marsh and our blind. 2 drake greenwings and 1 black. Missed a few. We saw approx. 125 ducks which consisted of mergansers, mallards, blacks, teal and baldpates.Driving home I saw a ton of geese around Easton.
My brother hunted ducks this morning near Centreville and his blind shot 5 woodies, 1 greenwing and 2 mallards
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
worchester 11-22-2009 04:44
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
hunted the morning.we did not see any big ducks at all, one small flock of teal, and for about five minutes we saw thausands of snow geeses. buffleheads were the only ducks we saw and there wasn’t that many of them. we did manage to kill eight bufflehead, five hens and three drakes
Posted By:
JohnMc
Guest
Kent Co. 11-21-2009 19:31
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Good AP opener 5 birds by 900. Could have stuck around for a limit but did not want to harass the birds too much on the opening morning. Birds flew well between 745 till 900
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 11-19-2009 08:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Been in LA for 5 days and missed MD opener last week – modest reports so far….do have reports of some divers migrating in …near Wye River, Swan Point off Rock hall. and that some Potomac river hunts were good to moderate.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 11-11-2009 11:00
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Last few nights….1/3 the ducks after sundown, dropping off big time. Also, geese in langford area are also way down from a couple weeks ago…dispersed due to harvest anomalies?? not clear but they seem to have moved out of portions of lower Kent.
Rain will delay harvest further ..ugh.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Potomac 11-08-2009 21:07
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Took boat tour on Potomac….1,000 ducks on Broad Creek, 100+ Piscataway and maybe 800-900 on Gunston Cove VA side…scaup, ring necks, gadwall, mallards, some widgeon, ruddies.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Caroline / PG 11-06-2009 08:22
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
Have heard good reports of teal, mallards, blk ducks, some ruddies around Jug Bay on Patuxent and good numebrs along upper Choptank for teal, WD, some mallards, blacks, some gadwalls.
This front and next week should help migration some but we mnight lose some WD.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Delaware 11-04-2009 08:37
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Prime Hook DE has few ducks after having 30,000+ arounf Oct 20-25th. Went out for a mid-morning looksee Monday, Nov 2. Some snows migrating in but saw maybe 30 ducks (20 in one teal bunch. Oct 30 opener had only 18 ducks taken from 27 blinds and Saturday hunt was poor as well. It appeared that Monday was worse, per USFW bird flu tester. Apparently, the area has had great food base but rains and Del bay surget over the dikes raised water too high and dispersed the birds just before opener. They’re trying to drain it off but moon and recent weather also making it a slow process. Some believe birds are simply dispersed locally but visuals are lacking to see any bird movement.
In Kent Co, we picked up some ducks the last few days (at night feeding). On Potomac below Wilson Bridge on VA side, not many ducks at all.
Hear geese stacking up in NY and PA.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Maryland 10-27-2009 17:16
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
FYI …enclosed is a link to MWDI’s website that summarizes the DNR Wood duck banding efforts this year.
http://www.mwdi.net/MWDI/Partnership_Spotlight_MD-DNR.asp
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Maryland 10-27-2009 09:10
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Folks,
There is until Oct 30th to send in a comment on the Eastern Neck Refuge comp plan. The current recommended plan needs to be substantially tweaked to enhance waterfowl.
The plan details can be found below..Check out the Funding section and see how many $$ are going to renewable energy, parking lots and lodge and other “non-bird” things. The lodge is fine as is the parking lot currently. Yet, the DU well that was donated has never been used ($7oK) donation, the green tree reservoirs are in dis-repair and the refuge holds very very few puddle ducks anually as they have no appreciable water or wetlands in the interior. It is currently dry as a bone with only two small ponds that have any water in them. Removing 173 acres of AG and food plot land of the 545 for more forest ( it is already heavily forested) is especially concering when it could be retained as goose / duck habitat and/or convertted to a substantial increase in the interior wetlands for migratory puddle ducks and shorebirds of which they host a tiny number each fall.
Thanks for your interest.
Cliff Brown
For more comments, information and recommended feedback to USFW, scroll below or check out the Refuge post.
For East Neck PLan go here
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/planning/Eastern%20Neck/ccphome.html
