re: Duck migration makes no sense at all...

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I have hunted in Louisiana my teen age and young adult years 1990’s though early 2000’s. Shot very little green, mostly greys and teal.

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When I was a kid hunting in CenLa in the the late 90s through the 2000s there were mallards everywhere. It was rare to not shoot at least a few green heads and/or some hens. Often getting your mallard limit quick. Always had tons of canvasbacks, greys, spoonies, woodies, teal, and pintails. But it would be hard to argue that the mallard numbers are the same as they were, here at least. They are still around but not like every few minutes a new group lighting in the decoys. People shoot widgeons but idk how common they are now or were back then.

I've always noticed during teal season we'd get a ton of blue wings. Then the teal we shoot during big duck season are always green wing. Maybe that is a thing, I have never looked into it, just always thought blue wing early then green wing later. But the few times I hunted further south in La they had blue wings all during big duck season.

ETA: maybe mallards are still down here as much and are just hiding out where they know they are safe, or they over estimate the number in the flyway, or combination of both.