Waterfowl Photos

[hunter322]

2 of the nicest drakes ive ever shot! And, my first almost full ploom drake green winger. Didnt shoot much this mornin but quality birds!

[bloc004]

[1eyeReD]

Sunday's quickie at the holy grail of wood duck holes.. Too bad not much other kinds of ducks were flying. What a tease.. Must've had well over a hundred buzz in within an hr well after shooting time started. Missed a few (not to mention a 3 foot down mallards), took these 3 inbetween some misses and watched wood ducks laugh at me for the rest of the morning. But it sure was a blast watching these little jet fighters bombing the slough all morning.

[deets22]

10 woodies and 2 ringbills

[Quackaddict9]

A few hunts from the past couple weekends.

plenty of geese around, ducks are slim but they are to be found.

[zeeLandy]

Good lord quack! Jewelry soup!

[Huntin&Fishin]

Quackaddict, how many bands do you guys get a year? Seems every year you guys have them in every other picture! Do they band in that area?? Nice work, and nice pictures! keep them coming

[Quackaddict9]

Quackaddict, how many bands do you guys get a year? Seems every year you guys have them in every other picture! Do they band in that area?? Nice work, and nice pictures! keep them coming

7 this year...3 were banded local 10-15 miles from they were shot. 90% of the other ones we've shot in the last 4 years have been Iowa, Missouri, MN...but all ducks have been banded local.

These last two were spotted in a 25ish flock feet down in the hole that we didnt plan on shooting and took these 2.

[Quackaddict9]

Saturday afternoon's hunt

[BigSwen]

Here are a couple of pictures from last Saturday's action at our slough in North Dakota. My son, a college freshman, decided the old 870 wasn't fitting him well, so he cracked his wallet open and got a SBE2...well, he started nailing the fast flyers...he seems pretty happy! First picture is his beauty drake bluebills, the next one is our take for the day...yes, one is a Hoodie and not an over limit of anything. The third one is our total take for 5 guys out there. A darned nice day out there! Too bad we only get two weekends on a license to make it work!!

[TylerS]

Too bad we only get two weekends on a license to make it work!!

That's what makes it so special. Go too often and it just isn't the same. Trust me, I live here

Good hunting. Glad you had a fun time

[Bryce]

First trip to nodak camp.

[Huntin&Fishin]

hey bryce, what general area were you in if you dont mind me asking. No need for specifics just NE,SE, ex. thanks

[Ray1]

Here is a pic of a 3 man limit of pintails and mallards out in ND this last Saturday morning.

[TylerS]

Here are a couple from field hunts Saturday in North Dakota. Three guys and not full limits, but when you have 30 birds dive bomb you from the stratosphere without giving a second thought, it's never about how many you actually kill. Awesome, awesome weekend.

[fishuhalik]

Wow, what a day today!!! Went out with bottom-bouncer today and lets just say the migration is on like Donkey Kong in Western NoDak right now!!! Tens of thousands of snows and just as many mallards. We started out on a big slough that I had seen thousands of mallards at earlier in the year, and this time the mallards were sitting in the limited open water (everything else is frozen) along with a MESS of snows. We watched the snows get up for a while, heading to a field to feed, and decided to follow them. After a couple of miles, this is what we found. Sorry for the poor quality, but all we had was our cell phones. Those little dots are all snows, and this is about 10% of the birds.

Bottom-bouncer dropped me off at the field since he didn't have a license and watched from a distance. I just layed in the field next to a haybale and watched as they circled all around me, just out of range. Finally a few came in range and I let loose. First 3 rounds hit 1 bird but it was a little far away and only took some feathers off. They kept circling. Next volly was only 1 and again, a couple feathers but no worse for the wear. Next volly claimed a snow and spooked the birds a little. I got up, ran 100 yards to where they started circling the field again and just laid down in the 8" tall stubble. They contined to circle and I dropped another one. Now they were finally spooked and took off.

We drove around for a while and found another 10,000+ snows in a field but were denied access for tomorrow. We started driving some more and found a field just next to the slough that was FULL of mallards. I belly crawled up to em and when I was about 60yds away they spooked. I pulled the trigger twice and on the first shot dropped 1, second drop hit 2 birds. I left em alone after that and will be returning tomorrow to see what I can get actually being set up in the field. Wish me Luck!!!

All day there were thousands of birds in the air. Every time we looked there were birds flying all around us. Mallards, snows, lessers, greaters, and a few divers but not very many. All around it was just an incredible day to be a waterfowl hunter, and one I won't forget any time soon.

[fishuhalik]

And Tyler, great pics! It's not always about how many you kill, but the experience. Kill pics just can't capture the feeling of fully committed mallards coming into a spread!

[Todd Caswell]

A snowy morning in the blind

[walleyeking19]

Here is a group shot from our trip to North Dakota from 2 weeks ago. Camera batteries died so this is really the only pic I got. This was our first day up there and we got our 8 man limit. The coolest part was that we shot 14 different species of ducks that day. Coming back to MN and seeing a fraction of the ducks sure is depressing!

[rbs]

wow that is a beast of a black lab!

[Quackaddict9]

A snowy morning in the blind

Great pic...You will remember that one!

[Lunker]

Awesome pic Todd!

Here is my first Black Duck, a monster drake i shot on Lake Michigan on monday. Also killed a really nice bull can the evening before but failed to get a pic.

[TonkaBass]

You gonna mount it?

[Vikings_59]

Lots of birds flying through Central/East Central ND.

We had a great few days of hunting in the snow. If you have the opportunity, now is the time to be up there.

[fishersofmen]

Awesome. Buddy got one last year and had it mounted.