Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
10-07-2011 09:15
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Swamp Gas
Ponds are drying up. There are serveal larger wetlands that right now are not holding very many ducks. The place to be is on the smaller ponds but like I said they are drying up.There are alot of ducks around you just need do do some scouting. We sure could use some rain.
Alot of canada geese around
Posted By:
Swamp Gas
Web Member
10-02-2011 17:02
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Any SD reports? Headed out the last week of October and just curious. My brother-in-law has been doing good in the Mitchell area.
Posted By:
Mike-Gorsett
Field Editor
08-16-2011 12:07
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Marsh Man
I agree..I started to scout this weekend as well, and you are correct in saying the duck numbers seem up as well as the water. we tried to get into our honey hole and the water is over our waders. I dont know if I agree with you on being a good season though I am very conserned that the birds will have to many watering holes to choose from…this year more than ever will be a year to scout very hard!
hope everyone is starting to get ready for the year it is coming soon!
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
08-08-2011 14:57
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Went out and started looking around this past weekend and like has beed reported there are ducks and water everywhere. Saw broods of ducks that looked like they were about ready to fly to broods of newly hatched ducklings. Saw a couple families of mallards standing on the gravel roads, and when we drove by they would just waddel into the ditch and swim away. Water condintions are unbelivable, which is good and bad. Some of are regular sloughs have gotten so deep that it has flooded out the cover. When that happens it seems like it takes a few years for them to recover. On the postive side there are new sloughs and wetlands to hunt, ones that I have never been in before, and that is always a fun and exciting adveture. Youth season is only 5 weeks away so until then I will keep looking for new places to hunt. I’m very optimistic this will be a good season
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
07-12-2011 14:24
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John
I was down at Springfield last weekend and I’m afraid the water is wide open bank to bank. Keep in mind the water is about 15 feet higher then it usally is, so when the water goes down I hope there is something left. I’m hopeing for the best, as we had a great fall down there last year, but right now it does not look good
Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor
07-04-2011 06:41
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Mike I just caught your comment on geese. At least here in MI we have what we call “molt migrators” which is those that do not nest for one reason or another. These are “local” geese who mostly do not leave MI to migrate south in the winter. They flock up around early June and migrate further north to molt. Ours go to southern St James bay according to banding reports. Could that be what you were seeing? MI migration date is generally around June 5 and return is around Sept 17.
jacduck Getting the plans in motion for the 11-12 season. Hope to be able to hunt 130 days + in several states again. You guys in the central flyway keep your powder dry! A serious hunter has to plan ahead! BSEG!
Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor
Springfield 07-04-2011 06:37
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Anyone know what the conditions are on the upstream side of Lewis and Clark lake? With the flooding I am wondering if there is still a marsh between Springfield and Niobrara. Any info would be appreciated.
John Cottenham VFE from MI
jacduck Getting the plans in motion for the 11-12 season. Hope to be able to hunt 130 days + in several states again. You guys in the central flyway keep your powder dry! A serious hunter has to plan ahead! BSEG!
Posted By:
Mike-Gorsett
Field Editor
SD 06-09-2011 13:31
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starting to see the geese V-UP and taking to all the standing water in SD. I am not a biologist so i dont know exacly what is going to go on with all this flooding but the birds should have plunty of water to choose from this coming season. God Bless all the homeowners in SD and along the Mightly Mo that are being affected by the floods. Hope it all gets back together before hunting season!
Posted By:
John-Donelon
Field Editor
Pierre 02-11-2011 15:24
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Members might update the massive kill on mallards near Pierre,7000 mallards found dead on a pond,cause was eating molty corn at a feed lot.US Fish and Wildlife and your Fish and Game dept. handled this.Need more protection that this does not happen again,can be done by putting potholes and etc. back under the Clean Water Act which the US Supreme Court ruled on back in 2001 that these types of water holes do not come under the protection of the Clean Water act,thus the additional plowing of wetlands and these types of tragedies would not be occuring.
Posted By:
CRP
Web Member
12-31-2010 21:09
Arctic Blast – Below Zero
Nasty here. Blizzard. 10-12 inches of snow. NW winds 25-40 & COLD. Birds will be leaving here the next several days. I have a feeling birds might finally move out of ND too. But when they get here they will just kept moving south to NE.
