Posted By:
cutback
Guest
Queen Anne’s County 01-11-2010 08:35
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Our group hunted Friday with a very nice mixed bag of Redheads, Cans, ring necks, bluebills and mallards. The cans kept coming all day. Had to fight the ice from time to time but the wind helped. We hunted sat. am near Blackwater and scratched a pair of gadwalls and mallards. Hardly saw any birds.
Driving over the Bay Bridge on Saturday afternoon I saw thousands of divers on the south side of the bridge along the western shore.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 01-06-2010 11:20
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Ice is the story in many places. Returning tide has helped some areas. Had nice ice free
hunt Tuesday afternoon for blacks and mallards but no divers in numbers in our region. More blacks than mallards it seems but the most we have had of both all year. Have heard that there are tons off Bay Ridge, parts of the Bay, mouth of Corsica but cannot see any for 8-10 miles below us in open water and I usually can if they are around. Hopefully, our newly opened water area will attract them??
Seeing loads of snows and many many geese but they are flying in focused huge groups, it seems, late morning and some in the afternoons. Ducks also flying late morning – midday afternoons.
The Upper Bay tributaries are generally locked up, Most Potomac creeks are locked up. More open water as you go south below Bridge.
Challenging situations but the rewards may be rising!
Be safe and smart,
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
cecil / kent 01-03-2010 07:59
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
in morning saw a lot of snows. they flew high, gave look, but never came close. fair amount of ducks, but flying high and fast. saw a lot of divers on the bay, but with the high winds and white caps, no way you could hunt the bay. about mid day canadians flew until sundown. got a lot of looks, but the small groups were the one’s that decoyed. four of us ended up with seven canadians.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 12-31-2009 11:19
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Reports from last several days indicate snow geese arrving / have arrived in large numbers in Kent and QA CO’s.
Canadian geese hung around after the snow cover and flights have been decent altough we noticed much larger concentrations yesterday and a more focused flight pattern around Langford.
Have reports fo decent to very good puddle duck numbers in parts of Somerset Co., Caroline,Talbot and Kent. Things definately picked up near us once ponds thawed…more blacks than mallards but pintails also seen. Some wonderful afternoon hunts w/ geese in morning.
Divers are reported to be around Rock hall, East Neck, Upper Chester, Cliffs City areas and we had cans and blackheads rafting near us waiting out the high winds but very few are really moving up and into Langford. We shot a can and 3 blackherads with several puddle ducks and geese yesterday in near blowout tides but many we could see did not move all day.
With fields freezing, ( and as the moon departs!) field hunting will be possible for many previously locked out due to soaked, muddy fields preventing easy access.
Enjoy !
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
anne arundel 12-29-2009 20:10
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
we hunted a pond this evening. we had two drake mallards land in the decoys while we were setting up. of course not ready. saw a few flocks of mallards flying high and one goose gave a look, but kept getting on.
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
anne arundel 12-29-2009 05:20
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
hunted a pond yesterday evening. saw some big flocks of mallards, that did look but were not interested at all. saw fair amount of geese. there was four of us hunting. we had a single that was shot and then about 4:30 seven decoyed and we shot five of them. not a bad evening.
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
anne arundel 12-27-2009 05:43
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
hunted a pond in the evening. had to break ice. saw a few mallards in the distance. heard some geese but did not see any and heared a few shots in the distance.
Posted By:
cutback
Guest
Centreville 12-26-2009 18:06
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 45-50 Degrees
Wow, what a day. We shot a farm pond this morning and saw snow geese, swan, canada geese, ring necks,mallards, blacks, teal and woodies. What a mixed limit (no snows or swan). Went to Still Pond midday to look around and the goose flight was still going at 1:30. A lot of fields were holding birds.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 12-24-2009 06:50
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Last several days, have head many reports of divers moving in…Bay Ridge, Rock Hall bay shoe, East Neck island, Sus.Flats, upper Chester, Lower Chester – Corsica and have heard some shooting up langford.
Geese hanging aropund after snow reasonably well but very focused…not normal flights, usually after sun is well up. Quaker neck has puddle ducks, afternoon flights.
We did well for geese on the 18th, skipped the snow day hunt and then did well yesterday on geese after snow plowing an area to expose some bare ground. Have not hunted the booby yet but am ready to roll after Christmas.
Plenty of geese around Wye River, some good duck reports along Choptank outside Easton, Wicomico River has some ducks as well.
Rain will open more ground and geese should return to more normal patterns but fields are very very soggy as they never really froze before the snow. Watched major goose influx afternoon of 17th and snows moved into lower Kent on the 20-21 period.
Merry Christmas.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
James-McClenahan
Guest
CECIL-KENT CO 12-22-2009 22:04
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Been a very hard year so far-no tmany young geese making things a little harder than usual and all this snow does not help if you cannot get on the fields.JIM
