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re: A few pictures from first split.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 11:33 am to 34venture
Posted on 12/8/10 at 11:33 am to 34venture
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Beautiful dog. Looks small. Would love to one day find a smaller than normal lab.
Yea thats old macy dog. She weighs 48 lbs and she is 5 years old. Best damn dog in the world.
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Difference between mottled and black mallard
Black mallard has blue-violet speculum with mostly black outline.
Mottled is blue-green speculum with black and white margins. the white margin is really appearant on the mottled.
Now in midflight its too hard. black mallards wing speed is faster but once we have our limit of mottleds I dont pull the trigger on a black mallard.
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Posted on 12/8/10 at 11:49 am to OhFace55
In other words, a Black Duck?
Posted on 12/8/10 at 12:35 pm to AlxTgr
Whoa whoa whoa getting all crazy with slang terms.
Lots of La people call mottled ducks "black mallards".
In Louisiana, 99.9% of the time, it is a mottled duck, people. True black ducks (prevalent in Northeast) DO make it to La at times, but very very rare. At times, game wardens don't even know the difference between a mottled duck and a true black duck, sadly.
Lots of La people call mottled ducks "black mallards".
In Louisiana, 99.9% of the time, it is a mottled duck, people. True black ducks (prevalent in Northeast) DO make it to La at times, but very very rare. At times, game wardens don't even know the difference between a mottled duck and a true black duck, sadly.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 12:38 pm to Tigah D
Understood, but there really isn't a black mallard. It's either platyrhynchos, fulvigula or rubripes.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 12:39 pm to AlxTgr
Exactly, it's just a long-used south louisiana term. Lots of people I come across still cannot speak or spell "mottled", instead opting to call them all "black mallards"
Posted on 12/8/10 at 12:57 pm to Tigah D
I've only seen black ducks on three occasions. One was killed by our party at Boeuf WMA. Saw three just out of range at Delta Farms with Tigerfoot. Then saw one other pair in the marsh, again with tigerfoot.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 1:01 pm to AlxTgr
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I've only seen black ducks on three occasions. One was killed by our party at Boeuf WMA. Saw three just out of range at Delta Farms with Tigerfoot. Then saw one other pair in the marsh, again with tigerfoot.
I've only seen one true black duck in South Arkansas/North Louisiana and that was on a day when we were absolutely covered up with Mallards post thaw out in January. A group of about 5 or 6 lit and we were waiting for a big wad of about 20 or so to follow them up when we noticed how dark one of the "hens" was on the water. We immediately jumped the whole flock and of course the guy on the end who already has one shot it before anyone else could pull the trigger. It was different looking than any Mottled duck I've ever seen and would have made a nice mount.
This post was edited on 12/8/10 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 12/8/10 at 1:24 pm to Tigah D
That's why I was asking the question. I have never seen a black duck in my years hunting but really never looked at the "summer french" (mottled duck) close enough to be able to distinguish.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 1:57 pm to CootKilla
Black mallard is what i call them. Its a black duck. Whatever u want to call em. Just like summer french for mottled duck. No one really uses that term outside of southeast la.
Posted on 12/8/10 at 2:05 pm to OhFace55
And thats the second one i have shot. I will get a close up if i get one again. No white margin behind the speculum like the mottleds.
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