wood ducks

We used to get them on our neighborhood pond, the two duck boxes were always occupied. But a few years ago they stopped showing up. There's also a watersnake problem. And raptors.

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November

Have more this year than I’ve seen the past few years.

I was riding down a canal a couple weeks ago and you could smell the molasses coming out a slough. If this is your honey hole, I’d advise you NOT be there opening morning. Very obvious.

They often disappear based upon food sources. Water oaks are dropping now, so the groups we had all spring and summer are gone

Jump 2-4 along swamp edge every hunt this past October while squirrel hunting. I’ll definitely be sitting near some oaks in Maurepas swamp wma on the 19th.

Saw 25-30 this morning scouting a wma for youth hunt tomrrow morning. About average for that area.

I think you guys are spot on.

My bottoms are dry and what acorns that are there are not accessible to them. Maybe with a little more rain they will start to come back.

I had hundreds of them last year. It was fun.

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Louisiana needs to limit wood ducks to 1 per hunter - we are seeing a huge drop in numbers. The teenagers go to the swamps and blast the hell out of the wood ducks

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You serious, clark? Not La, but the wood ducks in areas I hunt in MS look like mosquitos at sunset...

Quit discussing and build some duck boxes for the spring. Go put them along a public waterbody if you need to. Changing the law for the state?? That’s some liberal talk right there.

Like everyone said, it has been a very dry summer so their typical holes are probably dried up.

Get the teenagers blasting all the birds to run the boxes so they learn what it takes to make a bird, or jump their arse about it. If they’re actually poaching, call a game warden. It’s definitely possible to nearly wipe out a local isolated group if they’re hit hard enough one season.