Re: Post Season Things

[Duck Engr]

Speaking of Tony and bubbles, I saw a podcast he did this summer, and one thing glaringly stuck out to me. I think it was actually dive bomb’s podcast, or maybe Joe Weimer. Anyway, I don’t recall how it came up, but Tony made the comment “we’ll probably never pay this place off”, meaning they’re leveraged like everything else in our economy. Gives hope to the little man like me that it’ll all crash out and there will be a buying opportunity for land.

[Darren]

Speaking of Tony and bubbles, I saw a podcast he did this summer, and one thing glaringly stuck out to me. I think it was actually dive bomb’s podcast, or maybe Joe Weimer. Anyway, I don’t recall how it came up, but Tony made the comment “we’ll probably never pay this place off”, meaning they’re leveraged like everything else in our economy. Gives hope to the little man like me that it’ll all crash out and there will be a buying opportunity for land.

For further insight on how HF all came to be, listen to podcast with Aaron and Ira McCauley where they indeed speak to that, borrowing left and right to chase the primo ground in their area. Ira made MoMarsh which I presume Higdon bought out or heavily invested in so he's prob just fine. But Tony had no such side business to my knowledge.

Episode link below:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m9vsg ... 76546841fc

[Rick]

Apparently good bunches of pintails showing in some corner of SW La rice the last few days per vids online, first vids of non-teal I've seen.

Good to hear. CR was still spooky barren of anything other than squealers when Call and I made our last lap a few days ago, and there weren't as many of them as at that time in recent years. Hope to be pleasantly surprised next trip.

[DComeaux]

I asked this morning how things were looking in the marsh in Chenier bird wise and this was his reply. "Was in the marsh on Tuesday with airboats and pretty good clouds of birds got up. Seeing pintail, spoonies, and teal". That's probably the first south American wave.

[Darren]

Habitat Flats finally sharing footage of big duck numbers, prob grays and pintails. With significant fronts/flyway-wide strong north wind events on the horizon in the coming 1-2 wks, I do like the (theoretical) setup for birds that are currently confirmed to be in MO and AR.

[DComeaux]

I've been away for a week, away from life's distraction's and aggravations. I didn't see any ducks in the Caribbean mangroves and marshes, but I did see a few Kudamundi (Coati) and many iguana. The monkey's were being shy.

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[Darren]

Real nice down there, enjoyed the one time I went to Tulum but I hear its not quite like that anymore. I feared abduction, and at one point thought sure it was happening, but I was so very wrong and it was magical (cenotes, etc. ).