re: Flyway Federation of Louisiana?

A lot of you are blaming our low numbers on weather. That’s a real easy scapegoat. Most of them weren’t around when flights after flights of big ducks used to be seen in the middle to late October a few decades ago. This WAS the natural migration. They were looking for food. It’s when the skirting of the MBTA began with all this unharvested flooded corn in refuges and new “duck paradises “. This artificially changed the behavior of ducks from then on. They were issued EBT cards and became dependent on all this free lunch. It doesn’t matter how much cold or snow falls. These birds never have to go any further. They have been successful in changing the migration over just a few years. Ducks are a natural resource that’s supposed to be shared by all, not just a few big wheels. It’s supposed to be a “fair chase “ hunt; not a killing field.