Okie4570 is right about the competition from the feedlots. There are THOUSANDS of ducks daily on the feedlot across the county road from my house. I accidentally found a spot on the river last year and was able to kill a couple ducks, but they definitely don’t hit it like they used to. There’s a 25 acre wheat field north of the river and 3/4 mile east of my place that used to draw a bunch of geese, but the last few years I’ve seen very few and have never seen a crane on it. Even the green fields on the refuge along Hwy 11 don’t draw the geese like they used to.Well that stinks, haha. Makes sense if there’s no water though. And while I haven’t recently done near the waterfowl hunting that I’ve done in the past, bird numbers have seemed to be a lot lower the last 3-5 years. That might have something to do with the lack of water though. It Used to be a waterfowler’s paradise…
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