Had to ask myself Friday, unfortunately, "Where are the ducks?"
Survey says third lowest on the record, but all the folks at The Weather Channel can talk about is record cold, record early snow, this that and the other along the same lines. This is the most early weather we've had that I can recall in recent memory, and this is the survey result?
Many are holding hope for tonight's front, because otherwise, what else you going to do??? We are getting the weather, folks, but where's the bulk of the birds? Tony V @ HF is shooting mallards, as they should be, so wheres the rest of the early migrators between there and here? Bluewings filled many bags in Delacroix area this weekend, Venice as well. What??? Usually theres a good few, but no, they're hanging on about every strap I saw over the weekend.
Following Saturday's hunt I saw a fair many birds over the course of the morning, but wasn't near the grays we'd normally see, and there's food all over.
Knew this was the right thread to lodge such ponderings