Ducks arriving!

[BLACKJACK]

We have a 8 acre pond below our house and with the spotting scope it was great duck watching over the weekend with the cold and snow, it froze back up so that the ducks were concentrated in 2-3 spots. A bunch of ringnecks, mallards, teal, shovelers, mergansers, wood ducks, coots, a couple pair of canvasbacks, and geese. There is also a 1/2 acre island in the middle and I counted 4 canada geese hens nesting, they sat it out thru the 8 inch snow. One nest appears to be in trouble, with the snowmelt and rising water, the waterline is creeping closer and closer, about 4 foot away last night with more melt coming today.

Also had two swans on the pond Sunday.

Last night I checked several wood duck houses and two of them had eggs in them!

Spring is happening!!

[JustLOVEit]

Yeah there here... Mallards and Woodys are playing around my companies pound outside right now... Can't wait to start callin' them in!! Might just try this weekend, to see what there early season reaction is... =D

"Doing it, cause Just LOVE It!!"

[Lunker]

O yea, fishing on the WI river in central WI I have been seeing a bonanze of ducks. Plus I'm taking an ornithology class this spring so we go look at them intentionally.

Already have been seeing Mallards, Woodies, Teal, lots of Buffleheads, Goldeneyes(passed through a couple weeks ago), hooded and common mergansers.

Already getting pumped for fall and it's only spring.

[ole matty]

A lot of common mergies around the town few weeks ago and a few buffies n bills in the large body of water and tons of puddlers/ringers in sloughs and saw bwt drake yesterday for first time ever! And 3 pairs of bluebills this am!

[fishgutz77]

I spotted 7 greater bills this week on a pond next to hwy 25 between buffalo and monticello. This pond had everything but pintails on it. even the drake shoveler is great looking bird.

there was 20-30 lesser scaup but the large ones were really cool to see.

[Quackaddict9]

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saw bwt drake yesterday for first time ever!

i thought you said you shot a drake bwt two seasons ago??

[Dean Schellinger]

BWT are a dime a dozen around St. Cloud area right now, very cool bird, to bad they don't have that kind of color in the fall. And that would be awesome to see some Greater Scaup, one duck that I have never positively identified in the wild, although I wouldn't doubt I have seen a few zip by.

[Scott M]

Lots of divers spotted on my trip up to the Rainy this weekend. The number of cormorants buzzing around 4 Mile Bay on Lake of the Woods blew my mind.

[Sartell Angler]

Mille Lacs area had lots common mergies, buffies, bwt, goldeneyes, mallards, shovelers, and ringbills today. Also saw a few pheasants on the drive out there.