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re: Building a duck hole
Posted on 2/12/24 at 6:03 am to Griffindawg
Posted on 2/12/24 at 6:03 am to Griffindawg
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Also this is already a wetland area. If you pull it up on ONX it shows water. Somebody dug a ditch to drain it.
If it were me and any agency had issues I would show them where the ditch had gotten clogged up and promise to take care of that post haste and as soon as they left forget they were ever there. If it did not get enough rain I'd either pump it on weekends or dig another ditch from the creek and when they bitch about that tell them it happened sometime during the last few storms and I'd get it fixed right fast. Again, as soon as they left It would slip my mind.
Probably the biggest mistakes people make is putting too much pressure on such spots. In another post you said something about having another woody hole on the place...if the other one can be expanded by freak acts of nature like a bobcat digging a ditch and banking up dirt and knocking some trees down MAYBE some birds will come along, eat some of the millet in the other pond, dump undigested millet in the other pond and the birds will have a place to go when one is being shot and the other is being rested. Georgia DNR can't do a damn thing about a bobcat digging ditches and banking up dirt and dragging limbs and logs and concrete blocks all over your place. Georgia DNR also can't do a damn thing about birds eating millet and broadcast spreading millet all over the other pond. To make certain they do not do a preemptive complaint about the damned bobcats and birds destroying your property....that will ensure they never set foot on the place.
There really is no limit to the amount of dirt and ditches a small bobcat bent on doing it with plenty of time and energy can do. You can't possibly be reliable if a bobcat builds a 20 acre duck heaven on your place...who are you to intervene into the doings of a bobcat??? The bobcat is the key...if you did it with say a Kubota they'd have a stroke, but when you tell them you think it was the bobcat they will be dumbstruck and leave scratching their heads and lamenting that they just knew they had you...
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Posted on 2/12/24 at 7:00 am to AwgustaDawg
The other one is another property a few miles down the road. Can’t be expanded nor does it need to be. The culvert under the road washed out. When the county came to replace it they put a smaller pipe and didn’t put it as low down. So they permanently raised the water level in there about 18” and tripled the size of the swamp. Pretty good deal for me.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 8:29 am to Griffindawg
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The other one is another property a few miles down the road. Can’t be expanded nor does it need to be. The culvert under the road washed out. When the county came to replace it they put a smaller pipe and didn’t put it as low down. So they permanently raised the water level in there about 18” and tripled the size of the swamp. Pretty good deal for me.
Damn good deal. Between the two birds will have a place to go when disturbed. Already getting birds, I assume, which is required...almost impossible to build a duck hole in a location where there ain't no ducks. You may build yourself a pretty sweet spot. Good luck!
Posted on 2/12/24 at 8:41 am to Griffindawg
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Gotta leave the oaks for acorns.
How about gotta leave some oaks for acorns.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 9:15 am to AwgustaDawg
These woods flood pretty readily. It’s a shame some old farmer dug a trench to drain these sacred wetlands.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 11:19 am to Griffindawg
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These woods flood pretty readily. It’s a shame some old farmer dug a trench to drain these sacred wetlands.
I suspect that bobcat wondering around those woods could someday return them to their historical glory if it were so inclined...amazing what a motivated bobcat can do when their mind is made up. Kubotas not so much, but bobcats? Fuhget about it....
Posted on 2/12/24 at 2:18 pm to Griffindawg
good search the USFWS Moist Soil Management Guide for the Southeast Region
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