Unusually Large Concentrations of Ducks

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Anyone else observing more ducks than typical for this time of year?

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Yes.

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I assume extreme drought conditions north of us coupled with that polar cold front last week has more birds here than typical.

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Yep, Arkansas is very dry. In other words, we're one big rain from most of them going back North right before the season starts.

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Unusually Large Concentrations of Ducks

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prog filth - more proof of climate change destroying the planet

Got a report this weekend that there a bunch at my buddy's lease. Likely do to the owner pumping water into the crawfish ponds he leases out.

It's gonna be a good year baw

Those pond heaters don't work real well when there's no water to heat.

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Nets are down for repair, obviously.

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New rumour - the ducks have figured out they can fly over. I'll believe it when I see it.

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There is no water anywhere for ducks to spread out.

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This is it. It's probably not that there are more ducks down (although that is a possibility), but more likely that, because of the dry conditions, there is no water for them to spread out. As a result, they are highly concentrated where there is water.

I went to a spot I've hunted the last few years on some public ground, and there was no water in it. Completely dry! So any ducks that would have used that (and there were alot of wood ducks usually) are now wherever there is water.

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Nets are down for repair, obviously.

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Man you know they don't put the nets up till November.

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There is no water anywhere for ducks to spread out.

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‘05 was similar plus hurricane-ruined marsh. We hunted big water and stacked ducks like cord wood, baw.