so this year could quite possibly be the worst year to ever bump the season up a week early. not only did we get tons of water but with the warm and mild winter, we will never see a good push of birds until the weather changes.
i can see it now. this year closes in mid jan and we finally get some strong cold fronts and have a decent push of birds and voila!
me personally, i think this year is a wash anyway. with this el nino crap this season does not stand a chance.
On december 8, there was a WMA in north central kansas that did a bird count, this WMA was roughly 6-8k acres... not really that big.
out of the 20,000 ducks on this place, 18,000 were mallards
out of the 100,000 geese on this place, 26,000 were specks and 59,000 were snow and blues. this is just one little piece of the pie... just think of the birds on private farms.
i am getting pictures from a friends dad who has land up in kansas on a daily basis, one in south central and one in central, stroking birds.. it is unreal. and these guys are hunting little bitty cow ponds and creeks.
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