North Dakota Migration Reporters

[Mike Walerak]

I am looking for help to establish a network of waterfowl reports.

Some of you that would be willing to be a part of the migration reporting team. Please join the team here and provide any observations and reports from your area.

Canada Migration Report - Click Here

North Dakota Migration Report -Cick Here

South Dakota Migration Report - Click Here

Minnesota Migration Report - Click Here

[Papa Woodie]

I have relied alot on the US Fish and Wildlife websites reporting. This site breaks down many of the different refuges across ND and gives counts on Snow geese, Honkers as well as ducks.

http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/pressrel/nd_waterfowl/

This is course is a count of birds done by airplane, nothing beats 1st hand accounts by users of the forum. I will be in ND tomorrow over the weekend snow goose hunting. Reports from home says there are still many MANY huntable numbers of geese on J Clark....I will report back over the weekend hopefully with pictures.

[Mike Walerak]

Would you guys say the bulk of the birds have moved through yet or is there still more to come?

mw

[Papa Woodie]

I hunted Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon near Newburg/Westhope (on the canadian border) there were plenty of birds around (still say majority is sitting within 200 miles of the boarder in favor of Canada) however, the snow blizzard i hunted in on Monday should have threw everything out. 30 yard visibility in the field. Snows/Lessers flying about 20 yards off the ground...made a mess with the 10 gauge. Between 3 guys, we bagged 46 geese within 4 hours sitting in a ditch, freezing our butts off. Geese were feeding on both sides of the road, and flying over roughly 20 yards off the ground. Sure have never seen nothing like it...truly amazing. Unfortunately the travel through ND at 35MPH on hwy2 to MN was very slow. Seen 1 tractor/trailer on its side near Rugby, and near towner was a Dodge 3500 with 27' trailer turned on its roof (trailer full of hay). Darn slippery with about 3" of slush on the road!

I had an excellent year hunting in ND, and am excited to get things on the road again for next year!

Any others in ND...can you tell how the snowfall on Monday did with the waterfowl migration? Bring any birds in state, or push them all out.

[marine_man]

I live in SE ND... the cold weather around here lately has frozen us just about all the potholes, with the exception of one that I'm aware of. I haven't seen much for ducks lately.. I think a lot of them moved on last weekend... sure saw a lot of geese and ducks flying south while out deer hunting...

Tough to say for sure though, they're still forecasting temps in the 50's on Sunday...

marine_man

[Mike Walerak]

Any birds left up there?

mw