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Tons of ducks on the move in the south metro today! Must have seen 1000's and 1000's of ducks on my way to work! One flock honestly looked like black birds there were so many of them! Mostly mallards but divers also. I called my father and told him. He calle back saying he's been seeing HUGE flocks fly over the house.

Also had some buddies that were late goose hunting on the mississipi and they said a major migration in mid dec. They said they've never seen that many divers in there life. All day flock after flock would land outside there decoys, then all at once they would get up fly south again. Then another flock would start the gathering all over, then they all got up at once and continued on. This happened all day!

Wish we could hunt ducks into dec!

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I talked to my cousin today and asked him if he saw the ducks today. He told me you should have seen them last night. They had the whole family out in the yard watching flock after flock after flock of mallards fly over the house. He said it was incredible!

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i didnt see 1000s but i did see what looked like 100 0r so off the river in a corn feild near belle plaine not sure if they were of the local river type or part of this late migration you speak of..... where would you say they were migrating from ? just curious to see what peoples assumptions are

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What are you talking about there is no big push of ducks near freeze up. After the 1st week or two of duck hunting all the ducks in Minnesota are gone. Just kidding guys but the weird thing is That's what some people think. I would love to see that many birds. What I would like to know is if those birds were staying here in MN or if they were just passing by.

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They were not local birds. I drive over the Mississippi in the south metro everyday to go to work and I see local birds all the time sittin in ponds along the river that don't freeze. I have no idea where these birds were migrating from. Many birds and expecially mallards will stick around until there is no food for them. They can always find a drink in an open river or stream. With the lack of snow this year Im sure they had plenty of food. It was an incredible site yest. The most birds I've seen in one day all year and it's almost January!

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Just saw about 1000 migrating mallards in about 5 mins. Spotted them out the window while eating dinner. Stepped outside and there are huge flocks migrating very high and heading south. It was a low flock that flew right over the house and u could pick out the hen and drakes through the window that made me step outside to see if it was happening again and it is! If u live in the south metro near the river u should step outside and see this! Flock after flock migrating! Not nearly as many as the other day but still amazing to see!

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Wow!!! I take that back! Just as many if not more as the other day! I stepped back outside, flocks anywhere from 100-500 and u can see like 3-5 of these huge flocks at a time! They don't stop coming! Flock after flock after flock after flock! Incredible!!! 1000's and 1000's and 10's of 1000's of mallards! Just amazing! Wish I was out in the blind!

Are any states still open for duck hunting? Or when does it close nationwide?

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Wow!!! I take that back! Just as many if not more as the other day! I stepped back outside, flocks anywhere from 100-500 and u can see like 3-5 of these huge flocks at a time! They don't stop coming! Flock after flock after flock after flock! Incredible!!! 1000's and 1000's and 10's of 1000's of mallards! Just amazing! Wish I was out in the blind!

Are any states still open for duck hunting? Or when does it close nationwide?

You're kidding right?

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seen more good numbers of mallards and dark geese near carver off the Mn river this morning.surprising to see to say the least being its nov i mean Dec29 smile wonder if harvy lee or dan z have seen any in ther neck of the woods

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yes other states sell non resident tags.

go to the other staets DNR, Fish and game web sites and you will find out alot that way.

Their are many guys that go to MO. Arkansas,Texas,Kansas and a few other states south of here buy the laws fro each stae are so different that its best to look on line there agencys to find everything out hunting waterfowl

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Click on the link this was a minnesota guided hunt that was done earlier in the season by one of the HSO staff.

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2696119/A_great_guided_hunt#Post2696119

Also there are pages and pages of guides on the Web you just gotta search one out for the area you want to hunt,

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seen more good numbers of mallards and dark geese near carver off the Mn river this morning.surprising to see to say the least being its nov i mean Dec29 smile wonder if harvy lee or dan z have seen any in ther neck of the woods

I see ducks everyday, when the sun is up or in my sleep. did see a flock of goose gansers the other day when I left the lake after ice fishin'

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