Posted By:
Doug-Miller
Field Editor
Tekamah 11-28-2011 07:44
– – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
The holiday weekend found a few birds working the river bottoms. Friday was slow with a south wind and record temps birds didn’t move tell just before dark. Saturday and the big wind pushed a bunch more Canada’s through, and a few S&B and very few ducks. The Decatur area is holding good numbers of ducks but they don’t travel far to feed. Sunday morning their were still a few Canada’s moving in the morning and a few S&B’s real high but very few ducks. Really could you some moisture to get things a little mudding and change things up.
Its all about Ducks, Dogs, and Kids
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
southcentral 11-27-2011 22:06
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Slow here, probably not worth going to a lot of work to hunt. Need a good storm up north.
Posted By:
jdgreen402
Web Member
Valley, NE Farm Pond 11-26-2011 12:48
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hmmm … lot’s of moving geese. Mainly, working the cornfields around Valley. The pond was really slow … no ducks. Saw a few flocks sitting on a couple of sandpit lakes, but they were not moving. The wind pretty much has everything sitting tight. I’m hoping that it blows a few new birds in from SD. I guess we will see …
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
Northern sandhills 11-24-2011 22:15
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
I have recieved reports from the northern sandhills that there are a ton of geese and some spots of mallards all over. I witnessed at least a thousand Canadas feeding in wheat stubble today then roosting on a stock dam that I have never seen hold birds before. Some of the smaller lakes were wide open while some of the larger ones were 99 percent iced. I saw pictures of large numbers of waterfowl from the sandhills today and must believe that they are full of birds. Temperatures today went beyond 70 for the second day in a row and it looks nice for the foreseeable future so the birds won’t be going far for now. LO
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
southcentral, exit 257 11-24-2011 11:05
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Last weekend was the high point of the last 7 days. 10 geese shot out of a field blind sunday while river blind not far away killed 60 mallards in three days. Very slow now, not much moving. Local sandpits are holding about 500 dark geese that are patterned and tough to work as they have already been educated. Ducks on the local basin between overton and elmcreek are sticking around and may work on saturday when it gets windy. Not sure what direction they’ll go though. Water in the river has dropped enough , but makes retreiving a difficult. The next weather event up north will probably push alot birds who are holding up in S.D. .
Posted By:
randy01
Guest
central SD 11-23-2011 19:56
Arctic Blast – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Lots of ducks. Field hunt in morning . ducks in the decoys before we had the layout blinds set up. 20 greenheads, 3 beautiful drake pintails and one widgeon!!
Done by 9:30. A classic hunt!! One for the memory books!
[Edited By randy01 on 2011-11-23 19:59]
Posted By:
jdgreen402
Web Member
Valley, NE 11-22-2011 09:01
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Made it out to the blind this morning. Not really much flying. Had to quit at 8:15. It was a bit foggy … so I’m not sure if the birds were sitting waiting for it to burn-off or what. However, the Canadian Goose push seems to be over … 🙁
Likewise, not really much in the way of ducks. Not sure if everything is still up north or what. It would be seriously wonderful if Waterfowler.com would coax some guys in ND and SD to actually start making some posts. Perhaps a couple of free subscriptions, etc… As it is, the site is losing its effectiveness as an early warning system.
Posted By:
Jon-Barta
Field Editor
North Central 11-21-2011 08:22
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Sat was a day for the books. Sun was like nothing happened. Geese stuck, ducks not so much. Somewhere south of us should be loaded with mallards.
Posted By:
Doug-Miller
Field Editor
Tekamah 11-21-2011 06:31
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Had a major push of birds into the river bottoms starting Sat late afternoon and went all day Sunday. Most birds were in Migration mode and not a lot of lookers but enough to keep your interest. Sunday saw one of the largest Canada migrations that I have seen in several years. In the AM you couldn’t look in any direction and not see a dozen flocks. I just hope that some of the birds stay.
Its all about Ducks, Dogs, and Kids
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
Panhandle 11-20-2011 23:09
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Well the mallards fell like rain before sunrise this morning. We also worked a flock of snows right at shooting time and scratched two out of it when it looked as if they would bug out. We would have to work to kill our “other duck” but picked one pintail and one wigeon along with a confused Wood duck out of the many flocks of Mallards that worked our blocks. We would limit out around 8:00 or so and waited until nine for geese but decided to pack it up. My young partners were COLD geeze! We should have waited because about twenty minutes after we started picking up our meager spread the geese started PILING through. Mostly canadas but we saw several small bunches of snows. We had to bust a hole in the half inch ice and by the time we quit about half of the 20X20 yard hole had refrozen. The mallards really worked well to the hole and if my friends would have shot better we would have been done even faster. 🙂 We watched flock after flock of weary geese heading south all the way home. My son and one of his friends found a lake with the north bank open and loaded with birds. They set up between a cornfield and the lake and pass shot their limit of big Canadas along with a bonus Whitefront. Rick’s blind shot six geese and 12 ducks today. It is THE time to be out if you don’t have to work like me. Whaaaa LO
