Early Resident Goose Hunting Underway.
Early season resident goose and teal hunting are underway in a number of states. Hunter success has varied greatly on geese due to warm temperatures and limited activity. Teal numbers are increasing throughout the flyways ahead of the current cold front in the Mississippi and Central Flyways after a reported slow start to teal seasons in the north.
Hello folks, and, as always, welcome to Waterfowler.com.
Hunting was hit or miss for many early season hunters over the past week. Goose flights were limited to the first hours of morning light due to extremely warm temperatures across the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley.
With the first substantial cold front of the season upon us, hunter success is expected to improve dramatically over the next week as the teal migration kicks into high gear on the favorable winds dropping down from Canada.
Of course, these first cold evenings also fuel excitement of the coming autumn season and the passion our readers hold for the great outdoors. From Elk to deer and ducks to upland game, the opportunities available for the avid outdoorsman always seem to exceed the number of days available to pursue the variety of game that holds our interest.
From casts and blasts to big game and birds, over the next few months the readers of Waterfowler.com will indulge in the cornucopia of options sportsman have during the fall season. As always, we encourage our readers to share those moments on our FREE hunting reports and interactive forums throughout the season.
As we enter out 16th season of Migration Reporting, Waterfowler.com is working to address a changing Internet landscape and fulfill the needs of our readers. Prior to the social media boom, community and forum sites like Waterfowler.com pioneered reader interaction and participation on a national and global basis.
As Facebook™ has grown over the past decade they have succeeded in commanding the bulk of interactive time Internet users spend online. Where interactive users once sought interactive websites where they could share their passion with large, national audiences, they now share their passions in smaller circles of friends and groups within the Facebook community.
As a result, participation in website forums has been trending downward across the Internet over the past few years. From fly-fishing and shooting forums, to trapping and dog training, the competition for interactive time for readers is greater and greater each year.
As such, Waterfowler.com is in transition. Where participation is down, readership is up exponentially. Our audience can’t get enough news or updates on their passion for waterfowl hunting. This year, we expect to serve over 40-million pages of information to our growing readership.
To address the participation issues, Waterfowler.com will continue to offer greater integration with popular social media tools and 100% FREE access to all interactive areas.
For our readers, we will continue to expand our content to fuel their appetite for a good story. As we announced in our last update, our publication, Waterfowler.com Journal will return in digital format this October.
Waterfowler.com encourages our readers promote our new FREE membership to their hunting companions and to encourage their participation in our hunting reports. Unlike, Facebook posts that share hunting information with a local group of friends, our hunting reports continue to offer a continental perspective on migration timing – which is valuable to us all.
Until our next report, Twitter users can post their reports to #waterfowlercom – and be sure to include photos in your tweet.
