Darren wrote:re: wigeon
Haven't shot them like that since then, though this season I did see some impressive bags of them across the La coast....just not in the greater Delacroix area.
Pains me to think of how many studs we just cleaned, didn't save a single one to be mounted, not that we had much for taxidermy funds at the time either. Plenty pics and memories, though.
Seems like every time I dare to think we might be seeing a wigeon bump it immediately dries up. Wigeon have become such a rarity that JJ, the veteran's weekend guest who's a long time serious waterfowler, apologized for picking a colored-up drake out of a mixed group of the greenheads and sprig we'd been targeting, and I didn't blame him. (Nor did I feel compelled to fuss our new waterfowler, Don, for doubling with drake and, further verboten, hen when I cut him loose on a handful of grays during a longish lull that Sunday.)
