Waterfowl 19'/20'

[Oklahomabassin]

It’s a Common Eider. Banded earlier this year in Gloucester Massachusetts. I’ve got a pretty good story about it. I’ll dig up my Facebook post and copy it here.


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Oh cool! Thanks

 

[Porter]

Here’s a little more about the band from my post on Facebook. My dad was a police officer and I’ve had several thin blue line duck calls made in his memory. I collect duck calls and bring some of these out for special occasions

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[makeithappen]

Awesome story, Porter! A solid backing to your dad's memory.

 

[Okie4570]

Great pic and band Porter!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

That is awesome! Thank you for sharing about the special moment with us!

 

[dlbleak]

Great pics! Always wanted to sea duck hunt. That dark headed bird is a Brant goose, is that correct? Used to get Wildfowl magazine and the floating layout hunting looked like quite the experience.

 

[Okie4570]

Pretty slim and mixed bag this morning. Shovelers, mallard and a speck....and werewolf.

 

[dlbleak]

Was the speck by himself?

 

[Porter]

Great pics! Always wanted to sea duck hunt. That dark headed bird is a Brant goose, is that correct? Used to get Wildfowl magazine and the floating layout hunting looked like quite the experience.

Yes sir, that is a brant. They are fantastic table fare as their primary source of food is eel grass. Cooked these up the day after we shot them.

 

[spooncg33]

Hunted this morning and finished with 3 mallards. Didn’t see near the number of birds we saw last weekend when we hunted on a cloudy/misting day.

Of course as usual, once we left and had walked about 200 yards away a group of about 8 geese flew over our blind and landed in the field we were hunting.