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re: Have the good ole days of duck hunting become a thing of the past.

Posted on 12/30/23 at 2:20 pm to
Posted by NorthEnd
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 12/30/23 at 2:20 pm to
As a kid in the 80s in BR you’d always see/hear geese up high. I never ever see them now. Also, there were mallards by the 10s of thousands in manchac/maurepas. They’re would be giant rafts of them in the tickfaw and blind river. We had a slough behind the house where hundreds of woodies would roost. Sometimes thousands. We would count them coming in at dusk.

Absolutely none of that happens anymore. There’s less ducks and there’s less reason for them to be here. Sugar cane instead of beans and corn. Crawfish instead of rice. Neighborhoods instead of ag land.
This post was edited on 12/30/23 at 2:21 pm
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
30870 posts
Posted on 12/30/23 at 2:50 pm to
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Also, there were mallards by the 10s of thousands in manchac/maurepas
yeah that was a rapidly declining thing too.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
9496 posts
Posted on 12/30/23 at 2:51 pm to
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As a kid in the 80s in BR you’d always see/hear geese up high. I never ever see them now


In the 80’s in North Alabama we would see geese flying very high going south. Would not see many in fields. Now they are like this in my driveway.

Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 12/30/23 at 3:26 pm to
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Also, there were mallards by the 10s of thousands in manchac/maurepas



And now the whole place is choked out with salvania and water hyacinth.
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