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Teal birds
Posted on 9/9/19 at 6:48 am
Posted on 9/9/19 at 6:48 am
Have not seen a post about teal sightings yet, and the season opens in 5 days! Anyone seeing any marsh missiles in your area? I hunt Hopedale but haven't been able to make it down there in the past couple weeks to check it out.
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Posted on 9/9/19 at 7:04 am to Lord_Ford
I have not seen a teal with my own eyes but I'm hearing good reports out of the rice fields. Was in Pecan Island this past weekend brushing and saw nothing, but granted, I didn't get out until late and some alligator hunters probably pushed them out early.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 7:39 am to Motorboat
Saw about 20 in Delacroix 4 weeks ago then none the two weeks after that. They showed up Sunday. Saw about 50 in mostly small flocks of about 5 while running gator lines.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 9:05 am to Lord_Ford
Posted on 9/9/19 at 9:10 am to Lord_Ford
There were a few in St. Bernard this weekend. Nothing to write home about, but good to see them.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 9:50 am to Lord_Ford
If you have water in SWLA, you have birds
Posted on 9/9/19 at 11:07 am to Lord_Ford
Saw a few small flights around the Lake Borgne area on last weekend's trip. None this morning.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 11:20 am to bootlegger
Downvote. Because I can 
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:00 pm to Lord_Ford
TX report - Saw a big push last weekend. We roller chopped several ponds and they are filling up on those ponds. Got a 1000+ on a flooded flat South of Eagle Lake. Mosquitoes are epic.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 9/10/19 at 2:57 pm to MrWhipple
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TX report
A little more specific, SE TX report. Quite a few in rice around Winnie and a bunch bouncing around the marsh down on Oyster Bayou.
Posted on 9/10/19 at 6:59 pm to MrWhipple
Will be out around eagle lake this weekend so this is good to hear. Not looking forward to heat or mosquitos though.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 11:09 am to Lord_Ford
I saw good numbers this past Sunday south of Lake Arthur along with two whooping cranes. That was the first time I saw some in person.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 3:37 pm to Churchill
Only positive seems like out west.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 4:47 am to Lord_Ford
There is some water holding in the back of a 40 acre crawfish pond on our property where some beavers blocked up the overflow. I was out trimming for some deer stands Monday and was surprised to see a couple really big flocks get up throughout that pond looked to be 200 to 250 teal.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:57 am to GoldenD
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Not looking forward to heat or mosquitos though.
Add Gators to that list. Got a big female with babies right by where we launch the boat from. Gonna have to fricking move the entire operation because of that big bitch. We got a tag and she might bite it this weekend.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 10:21 am to MWP
Haven’t seen anything in Houma. Will be out there this weekend, though.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 10:23 am to MWP
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Add Gators to that list
Yep, we had a gator sunning itself on the lid of our pit in the marsh
Pup to the left <--- is definitely staying home for teal season
Posted on 9/12/19 at 10:31 am to Mac
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Pup to the left <--- is definitely staying home for teal season
Yeah, my Yellow dog will not see any action for teal in the marsh. Might get her on a rice field hunt or 2 though.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 12:37 pm to MWP
Survey's out, 115,000 birds. Pretty weak, though about double last year's count.
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Larry Reynolds, the LDWF’s waterfowl study leader, crunched preliminary numbers Wednesday evening after his final day of flights across the coast this week, and said he expected the total estimate for this year’s survey would be only around 115,000 – likely the third- or fourth-lowest count on record. Up at Catahoula Lake, Reynolds and his crew counted only about 5,000 birds.
“No matter how you look at it, it’s a weak survey,” Reynolds said Wednesday. “And there were some indications there were expansions of invasive aquatics across coastal Louisiana, and that habitat conditions are probably a little bit below-average.”
With the exception of the September 2017 survey — when Reynolds estimated more than 350,000 blue-wings in the state, the last several years have been pretty poor. Last year’s total was just 59,000 birds, the second-lowest estimate in the survey’s history. Including this survey, the most recent five-year average for September teal is 178,400, and the long-term average is 236,000.
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