Darren wrote:Friday evening I also came across a squealer that has apparently taken up residence in a local woodduck box in the area. Not sure how common that is but apparently she favored the box instead of a tree?
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:Friday evening I also came across a squealer that has apparently taken up residence in a local woodduck box in the area. Not sure how common that is but apparently she favored the box instead of a tree?
I'm guessing it was a blackbelly, as the fulvous seem ground nesters, and one of the early complaints when blackbellies moved into our area was their displacement of woodies from folks' boxes.
DComeaux wrote:...almost to a point being a nuisance.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:...almost to a point being a nuisance.
Far as I'm concerned, they passed the "almost" point shortly after Rita. It's flat nuts that we're still doing the same percentage of farm returns as when that program began.
Rick wrote:Nutria have been a rarity here since not long after Rita, too.
Rick wrote:Don't know if you've met Clark, who manages Cherry Ridge, but he was only half kidding when he told his guides that if their dogs got into it with a nutria, shoot the dog. The damage they do to vegetation that's harmed some parts of the marsh is sorely missed here where our marshes are trying to fill in.
Rick wrote:Was in your in-laws' marsh this morning and think it cursed: worst percentage of dud and poor nests anywhere to date and not so much as a single mottled or woodie. That after a best-ever tally of good nests and a fair show of summer ducks in the marsh to its west.
by Darren » Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:47 am
Did some work with Harry along the shoreline of Lake P Friday afternoon
Darren wrote:Not sure if you speck guys have seen this but this particular story just came out today on Nola.com
http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/ ... iver_index
Couple of notable excerpts:
As a result, specklebellies own the heart of every goose hunter, but unfortunately, Louisiana is overwintering a smaller percentage of the overall population than ever before. In the five winters from 1996 through 2000, Louisiana hosted 80 percent of the Mississippi Flyway's specks. That number declined to 32 percent by 2011-2015.
Link and his crew will be able to collect three to four years worth of data from the geese, assuming they live that long, but two birds have already produced interesting data. One, which the researchers named Sea Fly, got out of the Coastal Zone soon after the season opened there on Nov. 7. The bird flew up to the East Zone near Monroe, and hung around there until that season opened on Nov. 21. Then Sea Fly abandoned Louisiana for more northern states, and never returned.
Another bird, named GS365, flew non-stop to Stuttgart, Ark., spent one day there, and then returned to the exact same field where she had been trapped by Link and his fellow researchers.
Jarren wrote:I wonder how much the population has grown since 2000? I know that is a huge decline precent wise but I'd be curious to know the decline in actual number in the state.
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The oldest recorded Greater White-fronted Goose was at least 25 years, 6 months old when it was found in Louisiana in 1998. It had been banded in Nunavut in 1975. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Greater_White-fronted_Goose/lifehistory
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