Hello, folks, and, as always, welcome to Waterfowler.com.
That’s right, using the latest GIS technology and information provided by over 100,000 waterfowl hunters that visit our site each fall, Waterfowler.com will embark on a quest to visually track the North American Waterfowl Migration – in real-time.
The new GIS Migration Tracking System will track the migration by species categories (puddle ducks, divers, dark geese, light geese and seas ducks) and visually render activity levels from real-time data provided by you, our readers. To read more about this historic, even, turn to page 24 in your Fall Issue of Waterfowler.com Journal (our quarterly print publication) or, click here.
In other news, Waterfowler.com celebrates the GRAND OPENING of our Members’ Only PROSHOP. The PROSHOP at Waterfowler.com features a hardcore sampling of the most talked-about gear and waterfowling gadgets on Waterfowler.com’s Discussion Forums. To find out more about the PROSHOP and the incredible savings members receive on top waterfowling gear – click here.
Now, on with our week in migration:
The “brown duck” shoot is on throughout most of Canada as general waterfowl seasons open in most provinces. Not surprisingly, early season shooting is top-notch in most areas where grain is out. With duck hunter numbers in Canada continuing to decline – opportunity is more than knockin’ for those heading to the field.
Teal hunting from coast to coast remains spotty at best in those states with early seasons. Continued warm weather trends and the lack of any frontal systems have teal scatted from Manitoba to Louisiana in small pockets.
Teal hunting on the east coast remains dismal compared to the “hay days” of the El Nino jet streams, though hunters remain hopeful that an abundance of teal will grace their home waters during the regular season.
As northern hunters prepare themselves for regular season openers scouting reports are beginning to appear on the state-by-state reports. Reports in the upper Mississippi Flyway can be summarized by low on water and ducks in the western reaches of the flyway and good water and good numbers to the east.
In other migratory news, Waterfowler.com has received a number of dove shooting reports from across US – most reporting positive population trends and hot shooting.
Hunters experiencing tepid activity during the early teal season my want to switch gears head out dove shooting.
Please note, Waterfowler.com will resume our detailed Flyway-by-Flyway break down in next week’s weekly migration update – continuing until January 31, 2003.
‘Til then , take the sunscreen and bug-dope with ya.
