who shot woodies this morning? I have a question

[kc0myy]

This morning we got into the woodies. I out of 3 guys we got six woodies. All drakes and one hen. My question is...did your woodies have full colors? All the drakes we got all the full colors or close to it. I would not classify them all wall mounters but you could tell very very well which were drakes and hens. I just find it weird that the season opened a week earlier and the woodies had full colors. One drake's bill was a little dull. do you know why we all had woodies we close to full colors? I have shot wood ducks early in the season too but nothing with close to full colors.

[mooneyes]

I cant remember an opener w/o shooting a drake with almost full color if not full, shot one older drake today and we had a couple that were pretty brown.

[slabz]

we shot 3 drake woodies today and only onr had full plumage, but the other 2 were young birds

[Quackaddict9]

This morning we got into the woodies. I out of 3 guys we got six woodies. All drakes and one hen. My question is...did your woodies have full colors? All the drakes we got all the full colors or close to it. I would not classify them all wall mounters but you could tell very very well which were drakes and hens. I just find it weird that the season opened a week earlier and the woodies had full colors. One drake's bill was a little dull. do you know why we all had woodies we close to full colors? I have shot wood ducks early in the season too but nothing with close to full colors.

Yes, I have shot quite a few with full plummage color in the past. Kids day, waterfowl opening weekend. Wood ducks seem to have good color starting mid September not all but yeah.

[Fins-n-feathers]

Opening weekend we ended up shooting 5 woodies and all but one was in full plummage - one out of the five was a hen

[JustLOVEit]

Yup, every drake woodies we shot this weekend all 6 drakes were fully colored, also shot 2 that were banded, my first ever in 18 years of duck hunting.

[JustLOVEit]

Just found the pictures on my phone.

[carpshooterdeluxe]

Just found the pictures on my phone.

how many numbers apart were the bands?

[gurkster]

I shot a couple in full color. I assumed the full color ones were mature birds. The young ones may not be in full color yet.

[Bryce]

Thought I read that woodies are the only duck that doesn't molt. The better the color, the more mature the bird.