Crazy_Farmer
12-25-2008, 04:12 PM
Is some full colour drake wigeons. And my dad even told me that you give the birds a day of rest on christmas. But theres no days off for me.
I guess everyone has "that" duck. You know the duck that you love to chase and hunt. The one you think looks the best. For me, it has to be the wigeon. I dont know what it is about the little guys but from the sound they make, to the colouring, and how they decoy, also I guess, we see or dont get alot of them each year but they're my favorite duck.
So after waking up christmas morning, thinking about going out in the morning instead sleeping in a bit. I decided to go out in the deep snow to try for some traffic on some new geese that just hit the area in the afternoon.
Soon after setting up in a foot of snow, I had a white bed sheet on half of my blind, snow packed on the top half, wigeon came from everywhere and started landing into the spread about 10 feet in front of me. I just started picking out drakes, shooting only 1 or 2 out of each flock. They'd come and land right down and just sit there.
Pretty soon, as I'm looking for white heads as a new flock is landing, I see red. I say no way, I fly out of the blind, and hammer another drake wigeon down. When I got to it, my thought were confirmed, either a euro or a euro/american hybrid.
http://members.shaw.ca/stevensml/hunting/dec%2025th3.jpg
By then I had phoned Matt and told him to come out becuase the wigeon were giving a good show.
Then a nice little flock of geese came right into the decoys. Whacked three lesser down.
We figured we had enough and decided to hunt them again tomorrow morning, and after packing up, there must of been 100-200 wigeon get out of the field next door and circle our truck. I guess this cold weather really pushed the wigeon in from somewhere. As we rarely see this amount here.
http://members.shaw.ca/stevensml/hunting/dec%2025th.jpg
I guess everyone has "that" duck. You know the duck that you love to chase and hunt. The one you think looks the best. For me, it has to be the wigeon. I dont know what it is about the little guys but from the sound they make, to the colouring, and how they decoy, also I guess, we see or dont get alot of them each year but they're my favorite duck.
So after waking up christmas morning, thinking about going out in the morning instead sleeping in a bit. I decided to go out in the deep snow to try for some traffic on some new geese that just hit the area in the afternoon.
Soon after setting up in a foot of snow, I had a white bed sheet on half of my blind, snow packed on the top half, wigeon came from everywhere and started landing into the spread about 10 feet in front of me. I just started picking out drakes, shooting only 1 or 2 out of each flock. They'd come and land right down and just sit there.
Pretty soon, as I'm looking for white heads as a new flock is landing, I see red. I say no way, I fly out of the blind, and hammer another drake wigeon down. When I got to it, my thought were confirmed, either a euro or a euro/american hybrid.
http://members.shaw.ca/stevensml/hunting/dec%2025th3.jpg
By then I had phoned Matt and told him to come out becuase the wigeon were giving a good show.
Then a nice little flock of geese came right into the decoys. Whacked three lesser down.
We figured we had enough and decided to hunt them again tomorrow morning, and after packing up, there must of been 100-200 wigeon get out of the field next door and circle our truck. I guess this cold weather really pushed the wigeon in from somewhere. As we rarely see this amount here.
http://members.shaw.ca/stevensml/hunting/dec%2025th.jpg