They're coming back

[Scott M]

Saw a bunch of flocks of geese flying low in the fog. Also half a dozen goldeneye sitting on an opening pond.

[Gordie]

The Miss up here gets a load of divers on it this time of year and now is the time to snap photos of those birds as they are in full plumage and they are not as shy as other timnes of the year.

[DUCKAHOLIC]

ive been seeing more and more ducks and geese flying around and sitting on the river..... i already got the count down untill the up coming season!

[Sifty]

Today I saw a flock of buffleheads sitting on cedar lake by New Prague.

A first for me fishing for panfish and wish'n the shotgun was in my hands.

Sifty

[icehousebob]

A pair of Mallards landed on the pond ice below my house this morning. Then they walked up the hill to eat the spilled food from my bird feeders, about 15 feet from my back door. When I let my youngest Bassett out, she ran right past them to chase the deer and rabbits away first. Then she came back for the ducks and squirrels. Don't you just hate it when you have that many critters tracking through your yard??

[Jmnhunter]

saw my 1st flock of canadas yesterday out here in Bismarck, good to see!

[Gordie]

Today I saw a flock of buffleheads sitting on cedar lake by New Prague.

A first for me fishing for panfish and wish'n the shotgun was in my hands.

Sifty

I'm like that everytime I see ducks sifty and I love it

[tweedlap]

Saw a lone honker, on the north end of Leech, on Friday. By Saturday

afternoon three more had joined her near the rushes. They sure made

a lot of noise for only the four of them.

tweed

[Gordie]

Yesturday and thrusday was outside bulding a shed and saw 8-10 flocks of geese fly over and whats so cool is the dog lets me know about them before I see them my self. She has this off in to space look up at the sky then a couple min later I hear them then she starts to shake abit them she see's them fly over and she freeze's and whats really cool she stops what ever she's doing and focuses on the birds. She's a chocolate lab and shes 9 months old. Gotta love instinct

[BoxMN]

The cans are back on Goose lake in WBL Man, are they beautiful this time of year!!!

[Rhino32]

Great to see the ducks and geese filtering in. I have often thought about setting a full water spread this time of year with the camera in hand. It may be as fun with a camera as it is with a shotgun....Ok, maybe not, but it may temporarily satisfy the desire! A little lonesome hen call and the drakes will darn near land on ya!

[Todd Caswell]

The cans are back on Goose lake in WBL Man, are they beautiful this time of year!!!

Wheres Goose lake WBL?

Went "Hunting" Today with my camera and it is as fun as with a gun and very challenging.

[BoxMN]

Hwy 61 splits Goose Lake right before you get to downtown White Bear Lake (WBL), just north of 694. Small "lakes" that are little more than drainage holdings, but they open up much sooner than surrounding water. Saw buffies there today as well.

Great pic Todd!!!

[icehousebob]

The Mallards and one lone goose are spending their days on my pond in the 10 foot strip of open water around the edge. I'm waiting awhile before I try one of my spring tricks. I like to find an area where a few pairs of Canadas have staked out their nesting territories and then blow my goose calls. It must not mean the same in the spring as it does in the fall. I've seen geese go ballistic, flying around and honking, and looking to kick serious butt on whomever is invading their territory.

[Scott M]

Saw lots of flocks of geese today on my drive south. Also a few ducks here and there.

[onlydrakes4me]

Drove by a flooded corn field today saw bluebills, ringbills, buffaloheads, cans, and redheads, man they sure are pretty this time of year. can't wait till this fall

[dan z]

seen a bunch of swans the other day, out in some sheet water outside of town. the most swans in one area that I have seen ever. buffle heads are starting to fly thruogh and the area ponds are starting to hold pairs of mallards and geese. Looks to be a hard time to be a brown duck as the drakes are starting to chase pretty strong...

[Jackpine Rob]

As of this morning, when I let the pooch out to do his thing, we had 3 teal (2 drakes and 1 hen); a pair of amorous woodies, and; a pair of very shy mallards who slinked into the rotting cattails. A lone muskrat sat on piece of debris from an ancient raft constructed by the kids, surveying the scene and sunning himself.

The frogs were so loud last night that you couldn't hear yourself think out in the backyard.

[BLACKJACK]

The frogs were so loud last night that you couldn't hear yourself think out in the backyard.

I noticed that too!!! Neat!

[Gordie]

Iwas fishing at the hastings dam on thursday and saw a flock of around thirty kacklers flying north folling the mississippi water way.

[goblueM]

i was at Tanner's Lake right off 94 and there was a drake bluebill, 3 drake buffies, a handful of mallards, a pair of woodies, 4 pairs of canadas, and a bunch of egrets and herons. not bad for such a tiny metro lake

[Gordie]

Thats great goblue but I'll see your bluebill and raise it to 6 drake mallards and 1 widgeon

yes thats alot for a small lake I'm hopeing to get out on a small western lake this weekend curious what the duck numbers will be.

[BoxMN]

My brother saw hundreds upon hundreds of bluebills on Goose Lake (WBL) yesterday, they must be really pushing their north now. I want to check them out today, if they are still there. He said it looked like the glory days of bill hunting in the 80s when they would be landing in our spread as we were still putting dekes out! The drakes really shine this time of year, that's for sure. Last Friday there were about 40 or 50 or so out there that I saw.