Posted By: Craig-Emory Field Editor worcester county 09-18-2010 18:52 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees hunted this morning in the marsh. we had three teal in the decoys before leagal shooting time and of course they were gone when it was leagal shooting time. we had mallards and wood ducks in the decoys also. saw one flock of canadians in the distance, mallards in the distance, but quite a few mallards worked our decoys . but the duck we saw the most of was the wood duck they were everwhere. we didn’t fire a shot and heared very little shooting in the area,but had a good time. Posted By: James-McClenahan Guest harford co 06-15-2010 23:09 – – – Not seeing as many young ducks or geese as I would like. JIM Posted By: Craig-Emory Field Editor little creek, delaware 03-07-2010 06:30 Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 45-50… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

Posted By: cutback Guest kent County 12-18-2009 18:21 Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Ice 4 of us shot a limit of Canada Geese by 9:30. We saw good numbers compared to 2 weeks ago in the Still Pond area. A friend told me they had several thousand black heads at the mouth of the Chester and Corsica. Another friend shot 8 teal and 8 mallards near C-Town on Wed. I was going to go tomorrow but high winds and lots of snow suggest to me the birds will hunker down. A fire, football and a fox= staying home. Posted By: cantdothat Guest kent county 12-18-2009 14:27 Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Ice 4 of us hunted shot 8 canadas and 4 snows that came to close very few canadas tons of snow rats fair amount of ducks Posted By: JohnMc Guest Kent Co… Continue reading

Posted By: cutback Guest Hoopers Island 11-25-2009 12:09 Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 45-50 Degrees I hunted with 2 friends yesterday in the marsh around Hoopers. Very high tide flooded the marsh and our blind. 2 drake greenwings and 1 black. Missed a few. We saw approx. 125 ducks which consisted of mergansers, mallards, blacks, teal and baldpates.Driving home I saw a ton of geese around Easton. My brother hunted ducks this morning near Centreville and his blind shot 5 woodies, 1 greenwing and 2 mallards Posted By: Craig-Emory Field Editor worchester 11-22-2009 04:44 Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees hunted the morning.we did not see any big ducks at all, one small flock of teal, and for about five minutes we saw thausands of snow geeses. buffleheads were the only ducks we saw and there wasn’t that many of them. we did manage to kill eight bufflehead,… Continue reading

Posted By: Fred-Gillotte Field Editor Harford 10-27-2009 05:46 Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees Have to agree with Cliff. This early season was a notch above the last few. Woodie numbers seemed to peak a little later than usual and the warm temps kept them around the entire week.One has to wonder what our early season would be like if it were not for the Wood Duck! Posted By: Cliff-Brown Field Editor Maryland 10-26-2009 12:03 Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees Final days of the October split went pretty well…bird numbers diminished as we put more pressure on the farm but what we had decoyed well and as long as we chopped hunters faster than birds, the hunt experience stayed high!!….woodies primarily with a few mallards in our Kent Co location. Had a real nice mallard hunt further up county but saw no teal, pintails. Heard good reports of… Continue reading

Posted By: Cliff-Brown Field Editor Talbot 10-15-2009 09:33 Cloudy, High Winds – 45-50 Degrees Hearing more reports of ducks, especially some woodies in Talbot Co off Choptank. Off to scout first hand now ! Seems like a decent chance for good early season opener generally…hope the duck gods have smiled on us as well!! Posted By: Cliff-Brown Field Editor Maryland 10-13-2009 10:44 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees Am hearing reports of a pretty noticeable influx of ducks. Kent is seeing more woodies, Caroline and Dorchester…more of everything in certain areas….teal, woodies, mallards, blacks, gadwalls. This may not be a “nirvana” type surge in all areas but it certanly feels like the weather up north and/or nature’s clock has indeed coincided to push some birds our way..now if they will keep coming and not get blown out the end of this week…..maybe some of us will have a… Continue reading

Posted By: Craig-Emory Field Editor worchester county 09-20-2009 12:32 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees hunted friday evening. saw four mallards and four wood ducks. no teal so no shots. hunted saturday morning. saw a small flock of canadian geese, two mallards flew over our decoys and we heard wood duck for about the first hour and half, but did not see any. we had one flock of greenwing teal fly over and we managed to kill one hen. first time i hunted the early teal season. weather wasn’t bad, but the mosquitos were everwhere. Posted By: rwigton@hotmail.com Web Member patuxent river 09-19-2009 14:59 – – Over 70 Degrees Went to chase the teal this morn..late! shot 2 bluewings @ 9:00 then saw about 5 flocks of about 8 or 10 each flying high and fast.. mexico bound! nice north wind carrying them southbound. had to leave… Continue reading

Posted By: Kurt W Web Member Sykesville 02-18-2009 17:34 Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees Seen the first woodies of the spring, eight total. They were feeding 50 yards off my back porch in some corn. Hopefully this is a good sign for the upcoming breeding season. We still need a lot precip, keep you fingers crossed. Posted By: Cliff-Brown Field Editor Maryland 02-10-2009 10:59 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees For those if you who have wood duck nesting programs, MWDI is aggregating an order for predator guards (36″ diameter cones, 26 gauge galvanized metal)to be shipped from MN..flyer contents below. Impossible to get in MD. If interested, deadline Feb 17th. Predator Guards $11 each if MWDI can assemble an order for 200 guards Order deadline February 17th Email Cliftonabrown@aol.com or call 703-447-5142 to order Because a local supply of predator guards is not available, MWDI is… Continue reading