Posted By:
Michael-Wynne
Field Editor
Flats 11-27-2008 16:45
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Geese by the thousands. Large flocks of divers. Various puddler flocks of between 10 and 40 birds each. Heavy activity.
Most hunters I have ever seen at the ramp, 8 boats in the launch line up.
Still, little shooting, the birds just were not decoying for anyone. Instead they opted to raft up about a mile out off battery light, away from averyone. This raft drew every bird within miles. Flock after flock of everyhting that flew landed in this raft and it grew and grew. It was amazing.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
maryland 11-25-2008 09:51
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Have heard reports yesterday and today of ducks moving into central shore and lower shore areas…some blacks, mallards, spooonies, pins and widgeon.
Have also heard some teal and WD now departed
in same areas.
Widgeon stil using Potomac grass beds actively w/ coots!!
Talbot, QA and Kent geese apparently making many hunters happpy w/ response this past week. No moon and cold temps works a treat it appears.
Have a great thanksgiving!
Cliff
Posted By:
duckaneer
Guest
Free State 11-23-2008 17:22
– – –
CONGRADS CLIFF!
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent & Misc 11-23-2008 14:47
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Got out Friday in perfect weather and Sat broke pond ice….ducks were very disappointing in lower Kent…..did get 7 on Friday but all decoyed and saw very very few. Got 2 on one toll Saturday and saw even less. Geese were very friendly each day.
3 other reports in Kent had same story…geese very good, ducks very poor. Some divers moving up and down Bayshore, saw one group up Langford. Chesapeake farms refuge pond had hundreds of pintails Friday mid-day but gone saturday and no one locally saw them moving around…..migrated thru after stop over??? Maybe lots of ducks doing that in our drought riddled area.
We lost net ducks from last week despite “good” migrating weather…too harsh locally to hang I suppose. When you can’t shoot or even see a black duck in two different snow storms the same day, something ain’t right.
Good duck numbers now seen in one part of Dorchester from last week, a definate pickup.
More mirgrating geese seen moving in as well.
Hope still springs eternal for turkey outings and finegrs crossed, geese still hang around and decoy w/ no moon and good feeding temperatures.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Cliff Brown
ps. thanks Ned, got your robo working but ours went bad so used it Saturday!!
Posted By:
Craig-Emory OLD
Guest
worchester county 11-23-2008 09:09
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
saw some canadian geese,few snows, and most of the ducks we saw gave us a look. our group killed ten birds. 1 canadian, 1 black, 1 drake mallard, 1 drake hooded merganzer, 2 wood duck (drake and hen), and 4 gw teal (2 drakes and 2 hens). heard a fair amount of shooting very early in the morning, but it died off real quick.
Posted By:
Michael-Wynne
Field Editor
Upper Bay 11-22-2008 18:51
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
No birds. Saw some divers low way off in the distance, small group, near Gunpowder mouth. Saw several small flocks of big puddlers high headed inland. 4 geese got up near the main channel. That’s it. Seas rough…looks like for day. Heard no shooting at all.
Posted By:
smwhite
Guest
11-19-2008 22:13
– – –
Cliff congradulation on your conservationist of the year award.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Maryland 11-19-2008 14:22
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 50-60 Degrees
Been out of town a bunch lately but also in the field and have obtained various reports from Nov 8-18.
Ducks started moving into various parts of MD Nov 11-13th as best I can pin down and moderate to favorable numbers were observed in several areas in great hunt weather Nov 15th. Some specific reports:
Mallards moved into Susquenhanna Flats, Kent Co and parts of Caroline last week. More recent reports have mallards around East Neck Refuge.
Teal and woodies are showing up, sometimes nocturnally, from reports in Kent, Dorchester, Caroline. Not that many black ducks being seen in traditional black duck territories.
Good widgeon numbers being seen (and some shot) on Potomac River grass beds. Some ringnecks as well. VA side has sdome decent scaup numbers building.
Lower shore reports are pretty slim to real weak especially along Nanticoke River area.
Hunting after Saturday and Sunday high winds was slow on Monday for ducks and geese as flights were limited. Moon was still a factor with warm weather I’m sure. Not seeing very many divers around Langford yet but we could still get a bunch by Thanksgiving.
Canada goose hunting in Kent was strong on the opener. Some (2) reports from Monday suggest geese either got moved around by the winds to disperse from their previous gathering spots and flight trends or simply moved on.
Rains were very helpful but we’re still way short and need a couple more just like it soon. Weather north of us seems excellent for a strong migration week and with the moon moving out and lower than average temps for this weekend…things ought to improve.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
James-McClenahan
Guest
CECILTON 11-15-2008 22:48
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Good goose opener despite the fact that we had to walk in the decoys due to the heavy rain all night long. Rianed off and on all morning. Many idiots out today shooting roost ponds and skybusting. Most of our early birds had already been shot at on the roost by others making it hard on us. Still managed to get a 7 man limit by 8:15, pick up the dekes and watch as 500 canadians and 150 snows piled in to our field after we picked up. Ducks appear to be almost non existent.
JIM
Posted By:
duckaneer
Guest
AA Co. 11-15-2008 22:36
– – –
Took the kid deer hunting today, any reports on the ducks and geese?
