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re: Rate this year's Louisiana Duck Season
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:02 pm to Arbengal
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:02 pm to Arbengal
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I always suspected the huge rise in the alligator population was the cause but perhaps not
I have a lagoon behind our house that each and ever year is loaded with woodies. I don't shoot them because I like having them around and hearing them fly over and make a ruckus back there. There are no alligators. I have not seen or heard one wood duck since March 2020.
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Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:22 pm to Motorboat
quote:shhhh
Hunted Kansas earlier this week. My god.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:23 pm to VanRIch
quote:salvinia
I always suspected the huge rise in the alligator population was the cause but perhaps not
I have a lagoon behind our house that each and ever year is loaded with woodies. I don't shoot them because I like having them around and hearing them fly over and make a ruckus back there. There are no alligators. I have not seen or heard one wood duck since March 2020.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:23 pm to GREENHEAD22
quote:salvinia and apple snails
There is something going on with the wood ducks in LA and MS.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:24 pm to Arbengal
quote:a few miles away.. last week was the most woodies I have ever seen anywhere.
You have an excellent point. I had a spot in the TNWR that I hunted for years. Always had tons of woodies. They are virtually gone. I always suspected the huge rise in the alligator population was the cause but perhaps not. They would fly out by the thousands in the morning. Typically don’t hear more than 10-20 in the past 3-5 hrs. Your comment is spot on in my little corner of the world
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:48 pm to choupiquesushi
Negative. There are no plants on the surface and the water is nice and clear.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:59 pm to VanRIch
Does anyone think Mexican Whistling Ducks overtaking wood duck boxes is having an impact? I see a bunch of them everywhere and they seem to enjoy those boxes up at three rivers.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 1:47 pm to Datfish
D - Houma and eastward public management areas. Opener was ok, everything after that turned into a cruise in the marsh at dark for maybe 2 teal or a gaddy if lucky.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 2:14 pm to bayouself74
NE La was wrapped up in wood ducks. Tons
Posted on 1/29/21 at 2:39 pm to Ron Cheramie
Bad acorn crop two years in a row has hurt the woodies around my house
Posted on 1/29/21 at 3:43 pm to Datfish
D
Worst bird to hunt ratio since I been doing it. Almost 3 decades
Worst bird to hunt ratio since I been doing it. Almost 3 decades
Posted on 1/29/21 at 3:49 pm to VanRIch
F-... guess I'll have to shoot these shells at skeet before they go bad, haven't bought extra shells in 3 years. Time to get the 40 wooduck boxes ready for post season, dont know where they go during the season either????
Posted on 1/29/21 at 4:11 pm to bayouself74
We have over 90% nesting in our 40 plus wooduck boxes, see Whistlers on boxes with wooducks alot. They dump nest with wooduck eggs and let female wooducks sit on them.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 4:27 pm to Greenseed
Made a guided hunt goose this morning in gueydan. Didn't fire a single shot.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 4:48 pm to GREENHEAD22
quote:
There is something going on with the wood ducks in LA and MS.
In one place we hunt that pretty much all we killed was wood ducks....
Posted on 1/29/21 at 4:55 pm to jsmoke222000
quote:
Made a guided hunt goose this morning in gueydan. Didn't fire a single shot.
That’s tough. For geese south arkansas seems to be the demarcation line for success on guided hunts now unless there are a couple left in ne la running hunts. Just seems to get slimmer every year towards the coast.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:41 pm to VanRIch
quote:any feed/invertabrates in water?
Negative. There are no plants on the surface and the water is nice and clear.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 8:39 pm to choupiquesushi
Not as bad as 2018 but bad
2 areas in tensas and richland parish
Most wood ducks I've seen in 5 yrs in Tensas parish. Watched over 300 roost tonight
2 areas in tensas and richland parish
Most wood ducks I've seen in 5 yrs in Tensas parish. Watched over 300 roost tonight
Posted on 1/29/21 at 10:30 pm to Greenseed
quote:
see Whistlers on boxes with wooducks alot. They dump nest with wooduck eggs and let female wooducks sit on them.
I ain’t saying you’re wrong, but this DU article quote says your wrong:
Black-
quote:
bellies breed during their first year of life, establishing lifelong pair bonds during their first winter. Nest initiation occurs from April through August, a period approximately one month longer than prairie nesting ducks. Black-bellies nest in tree cavities and, similar to wood ducks, also have adapted to nesting in boxes. Where tree cavities are lacking, black-bellies will nest on the ground, often in grasses at the base of small trees or shrubs. Females lay an average of 13 eggs and both sexes incubate the eggs. Experiments have revealed that removal of either the female or the male during incubation results in abandonment of the nest. Apparently, participation of both the male and female is necessary for the nesting attempt to be successful.
No mention of “dumping” woodie eggs or poaching a Wood ducks nest.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 10:53 pm to tigerinthebueche
Lol who's the cockmuncher downvoting everybody?
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