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re: Rate this year's Louisiana Duck Season
Posted on 1/30/21 at 7:05 am to tigerinthebueche
Posted on 1/30/21 at 7:05 am to tigerinthebueche
Black-bellieds will dump nest. Other woodies will and even hooded mergansers will dump nest
If hoodies mergs dump in a wood duck nest, the little hoodies will usually survive but if a woodie dumps in a hoodie nest they don’t do well. The hoodie takes her brood to deeper water and the little woodies can’t dive and feed
If hoodies mergs dump in a wood duck nest, the little hoodies will usually survive but if a woodie dumps in a hoodie nest they don’t do well. The hoodie takes her brood to deeper water and the little woodies can’t dive and feed
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Posted on 1/30/21 at 7:26 am to Ron Cheramie
Woodies dump nests too?
Never knew that. Is it a common thing or rare? Didn’t know ducks did this behavior.
Never knew that. Is it a common thing or rare? Didn’t know ducks did this behavior.
Posted on 1/30/21 at 7:30 am to tigerinthebueche
Not sure the percentage that do, but woodies definitely dump nest. A woodie hen can only turn so many eggs, sometimes she can hatch out all of them but many times it’s the other hens eggs that get hatched because they are on top of hers
Posted on 1/30/21 at 8:37 am to Datfish
F we haven't had ducks in shreveport in 15 years
Posted on 1/30/21 at 8:46 am to choupiquesushi
Well I am definitely missing something. I’m near lost break and they are just not frequenting that spot like they were. I am sure glad to hear they are close by. Relived actually. Thanks for that info!
Posted on 1/30/21 at 8:53 am to tigerinthebueche
We check our boxes on a regular basis, have issues with rat snakes eating eggs. When we check our boxes you will find wood duck eggs one week, then twice the amount off eggs the next that are different in color. Whistlers constantly aggravating the nesting wooducks. I put my trail cams after deer season on boxes and catch alot of suprising footage of Whistlers, wooducks,snakes hawks,crows and alligators at the bottom of them, fun to watch the show.
Posted on 1/30/21 at 9:32 am to Datfish
D- Only because youth weekend my son shot a limit. Hunted Bayou Sauvage 4 times and shot 10 ducks, 6 on youth day, 4 the next trip and then 2 zeros. Made a woodie hunt at cat island and killed 4 mergansers.
Posted on 1/30/21 at 9:42 am to Greenseed
Gives me a reason not to like the squealers. Woodies have always been a favorite.
Posted on 1/30/21 at 10:23 am to Datfish
F
Posted on 1/30/21 at 2:39 pm to p&g
based off how my season has gone, I'll give it a C. I still have tomorrow and next sunday to hunt. I'll say it again, Ive had to hunt harder and smart and be more mobile this year and give spots LONG rests.
This is by far the fewest ducks I have seen in a season in LA... For 60 years plus of accelerating habitat degradation, land use changes and a plethora of invasive plants, invertabrates and animals and... ever increasing mechanized human traffic in formerly ducky areas(constant surface drive pressure in formerly lightly reached areas, 50 fold increase in shallow water fisherman 7 days a week and crawfish buggies.... well.. our chickens have come home to roost.. and the guinea hens didn't come with them. quite frankly other state's habitat, land use and human pressure makes the ducks like it there better.
yesterday's hunt - someone on an adjoining property rode around their timber holes and the main lake we all have access to all morning. It was comical watching the open water ducks get up and move once for about 300 yards, then get up again and get up and move again for about twice that distance ... then when they got near them again they got up again and left the area... the ducks showed up around 8:00 am.. probably form a similar experience at catahoula earlier in the day.... those nimrods diminished the day for everyone in a 5 mile radius...
This is by far the fewest ducks I have seen in a season in LA... For 60 years plus of accelerating habitat degradation, land use changes and a plethora of invasive plants, invertabrates and animals and... ever increasing mechanized human traffic in formerly ducky areas(constant surface drive pressure in formerly lightly reached areas, 50 fold increase in shallow water fisherman 7 days a week and crawfish buggies.... well.. our chickens have come home to roost.. and the guinea hens didn't come with them. quite frankly other state's habitat, land use and human pressure makes the ducks like it there better.
yesterday's hunt - someone on an adjoining property rode around their timber holes and the main lake we all have access to all morning. It was comical watching the open water ducks get up and move once for about 300 yards, then get up again and get up and move again for about twice that distance ... then when they got near them again they got up again and left the area... the ducks showed up around 8:00 am.. probably form a similar experience at catahoula earlier in the day.... those nimrods diminished the day for everyone in a 5 mile radius...
This post was edited on 2/1/21 at 8:11 am
Posted on 2/1/21 at 8:07 am to Ron Cheramie
quote:yep... seen several aix sponsa boxes over the years with an obscene amount of eggs - all one color and size.
Not sure the percentage that do, but woodies definitely dump nest. A woodie hen can only turn so many eggs, sometimes she can hatch out all of them but many times it’s the other hens eggs that get hatched because they are on top of hers
you guys having predator problems if you don't have "chinese hats" under your boxes..
Posted on 2/1/21 at 8:33 am to choupiquesushi
Just crunched numbers, 187 ducks on 31 hunts. First split pretty solid but second split mostly was tough, few good hunts here or there. Delacroix marsh, avoyelles parish fields.
C+/B---
C+/B---
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