Both shoots, as our other two hunts a few weeks back, were totally different.
Saturday Morning we met up with a friend and he put us on the Black-bellied Whistling Ducks.
He showed us the kind of water and cover they were looking for. Shallow and full of Water Cabbage...
Toden with a Black Belly
I got my first Black Belly whistling duck and Fulvous tree duck!!
Thinking about a standing mount with both of them beside each other.
I have heard people say that the Black Belly is a goofy looking duck but its a gorgeous bird...
The Feet and Beak are brightly colored... the pink fades quickly after they die.
Sunday we went to an area an hour South. Set up early and waited. Just before legal time we had a couple of other hunters set up a little close to us...
I asked them to move further away and got nowhere. I'm always surprised when hunters are rude but this area is public and a lot of newer hunters try out duck hunting for the first time.
The other folks were too close for us to get big ducks to work and we got peppered a few times early.
We stayed put and picked drake Blue Wing Teal out of flocks of 20 to 50 teal. Could have had our teal limit in no time but we wanted something different.
We waited the other hunters out and had the place to ourselves after 9am.
Finished the day with 4 wigeon, 1 green wing teal, 1 blue bill and 12 blue wing teal drakes!
Wolfeman got the prize Sunday... A stud Wigeon!
We left South Florida happy guys...
What an amazing place!
LOL!
... your posts do such a GREAT job capturing the spirit and thrill of the hunt, I think you ought to check with Keels on the possibility of a hunting section!