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^^^ I agree ^^^. I enjoyed the pictures...

'Specially those short, little stone cold killas.

Great way to finish!

Green wings definitely saved us this year but that is pretty typical for any January. The consistent second split numbers in our area come from green wings (or blue wings if we get an early reverse migration). Unless we get new pushes of birds the local gadwalls from the first split seem to disappear. I guess they find the refuges and/or hunting pressure pushes them north into the central Texas farm pond country. I saw multiples more pintails this year than last so that was a good bonus.

I don't keep good stats but I am fairly sure that I shot more gadwall than GWT last year. The summer drought hurt those numbers for me and from talking with other area hunters I would say it did for the SETX area as a whole. The only spot we had that shot consistent gadwall was in the saltwater marsh that had water all summer and grew its typical stand of vegetation.

Duck Engr wrote:Great way to finish!

I wasn't expecting to go out on a high note but will surely take it. Offseason work starts today. Need some dry weather and north winds and we will get to burning.