Teal season

[Ericdc]

Date: 9/12/20

Time: left around 9:45

Location: Corey's lease

Cloud Cover: cloud bank to East hid sun until around 8

Wind Direction and Velocity: NNE 5-7, decent

Temperature: comfortable then hot

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: curfew enforced on 27 kept us from getting started till about 7

Waterfowl Activity: decent flight till 8

Waterfowl Responsiveness: not good. We were either in wrong spot or they were seeing us, big bunches would push off, shot 1's and 2's

Hunters: me, brothers Corey and Ryan, nephew Simon (he's 8) and 3 other friends

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Boone did real well on a few blinds

Special Equipment: had several mojos and about 3 dozen teal decoys

Kudos: we were able to hunt

curses: thankfully saw the big cottonmouth laying where I was gonna sit, had it been before daylight...who knows

Birds By Species: 8 blue winged teal


Photo Ops:


Boone


Simon and the nonvenomous snake we found already expired.

Marsh treasures


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[Duck Engr]

Cotton mouth remark gave me the willies!

[Darren]

Way to persist and get in on some action

[Rick]

Cotton mouth remark gave me the willies!

Seeing a dog swimming this time of year did the same for me.

[Ericdc]

He saved us several birds, didn't see any gators. Corey's call.


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[Rick]

I don't know enough about gators to know if salt surge kills or pushes them all out of an area. But I do know you probably won't see the one that's hunting and takes a dog from below. All those I know who've been in that awful situation saw was the splash.

[BGkirk]

I don't know enough about gators to know if salt surge kills or pushes them all out of an area. But I do know you probably won't see the one that's hunting and takes a dog from below. All those I know who've been in that awful situation saw was the splash.

During the plane ride I saw plenty of big ones belly up, but they were not near our place. I’ve seen small ones along the road ditch still alive so I know some made it.


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[Rick]

You're bolder than me.

[Ericdc]

Just woke up to my wife telling me to get the gun. We've had more backyard chicken predators this summer decimating our flock than I've ever had. I've trapped 3 possums but the coons are the problem. I just blew one out the side of the coop with a properly placed low brass 20 gauge dove shell. Trapped 1 Tuesday night with the 2 dead chickens it left in coop. Will reset trap in the morning with the 2 dead ones this one got before meeting its demise.

We've had chickens for several years now and I've never lost so many. I can't seem to fortify my coop enough to keep them out so I guess I'll let them go back to free ranging inside the back yard fence? I've lost 4 in 2 nights having them in coop for "their protection".

When you wake up at 3:30 with your wife hunting a gun, it gets the adrenaline going. Might as well post about it huh.

Tuesday night's take.


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[SpinnerMan]

When you wake up at 3:30 with your wife hunting a gun, it gets the adrenaline going.

My folks had chickens, pigeons, pheasants, peacocks, and occasionally other birds. Coyotes, foxes, hawks, my mom even killed a mink that was clamped on a chicken's ass. It was predator central.

Good luck getting rid of the problem critters.

[Deltaman]

Amazing what critters can figure out for a meal! Sounds like you have a good handle on the control, and hopefully, no more middle of the night wake-up nudges from your bride I've been cursed with Armadillos, digging grubs in my yard, and have trapped 3 so far and a couple of opossums. Been fighting the bastages for a couple of years, they are not easy to trap, and finally configured a bottleneck of sorts, that they have to travel through from the woods to my yard. Have spread the yard with what i thought was enough poison to kill the grubs, but the Armadillos keep coming.