My camera is finally paying itself off

[Crazy_Farmer]

Got a check from the United States Government for reporting a reward band, I found while out brant hunting. Too bad its actually worth a little less then 100 CAD but I wont complain, just makes my $1800 lense worth it.

Only bad thing is some hunter on here next year will probably shoot it and wont get the money now hahahaha. It was banded this past fall in Alaska.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/IMG_7399.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/check-1.jpg

[Ozone]

Cool. Lets see the rest of the duck now.

[Crazy_Farmer]

Sorry but I wasnt interested in the "whole" duck, just its legs.....just a plain ol' drake mallard. :mrgreen:

I took a couple hundred shots of wigeon though. The photos are getting turned into full size silo's by a fellow in the states. I'll get a batch when they're done fairly soon to use next year. Pretty neat concept, get it right and and it looks like real birds on the ground, not painted or a decoy.

[forest walker]

Got a check from the United States Government for reporting a reward band, I found while out brant hunting. Too bad its actually worth a little less then 100 CAD but I wont complain, just makes my $1800 lense worth it.

Only bad thing is some hunter on here next year will probably shoot it and wont get the money now hahahaha. It was banded this past fall in Alaska.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/IMG_7399.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/check-1.jpg
So you are bragging about screwing somebody else out of their reward band money??? Classy!

[Crazy_Farmer]

Yeah buddy. If I go through the trouble of finding one and having to take a ton of shoots walking in a 360 around it. I got no problem with that. They put a reward on so you report it, I reported it. There's a chance that duck will go through it's entire life without getting killed.

Stay classy Albertan. :confused:

[KB90]

So you are bragging about screwing somebody else out of their reward band money??? Classy!

Get real! how did he screw somebody?

It's not their reward money, it's his. He got the band number. Don't have to kill to report.

[lorneparker1]

adam you are a *******!

I hate you and i am quitting waterfowling because of this.

THanks

[Crazy_Farmer]

Can I have your boat then?

[forest walker]

Well Adam I am sorry about the way I came across. I should have put more thought into it. But I will say that I do not think this is the way the banding program is supposed to work. When you reported it did you tell them the duck was still alive? If not they assume it is dead and this will not give proper info to those getting stats on the banded birds. In the end will it really matter much? Probably not but it is a thought I have.
Also if I were to kill a duck and find out someone else turned in the numbers I would be pissed.
I will say that I think your picture is great. Thank you for posting. I feel you probably do deserve the money after doing something as hard as getting the numbers off a band like that. I am just glad you didn't pull a Jeff Foiles and kill the thing while feeding it bread crumbs in the local park.lol Thanks again for the pics.

[Crazy_Farmer]

Not a problem I can understand. But I did report it as alive. I have the piece of paper showing that. So this same mallard could go back year after year or go to another spot and somebody else can report it. The way I see banding is the same as collars. Sure collars can have multiple reports of the same bird. But that same bird could also be shot on its first trip south and only get one report.

This mallard I took a picture of was reported and in future could send in another one or even more possibly if its recaptured aswell. And if you look at the banded vs encounter % its like 6 million banded to 1 million recovered. So theres a 16% chance this same mallard will ever get reported again. I can live with that.

[lorneparker1]

Can I have your boat then?

Once it is done, yes

[forest walker]

Not a problem I can understand. But I did report it as alive. I have the piece of paper showing that. So this same mallard could go back year after year or go to another spot and somebody else can report it. The way I see banding is the same as collars. Sure collars can have multiple reports of the same bird. But that same bird could also be shot on its first trip south and only get one report.

This mallard I took a picture of was reported and in future could send in another one or even more possibly if its recaptured aswell. And if you look at the banded vs encounter % its like 6 million banded to 1 million recovered. So theres a 16% chance this same mallard will ever get reported again. I can live with that.
Does this mean that you could have your buddy report it next year and he gets a $100 bill in the mail? lol Wouldn't that be nice if that duck kept paying you out for all the trouble it took to get the numbers.lol
Got any good pics of some canvasbacks? I can't get enough of them! Any Sea ducks?

[longshot]

Good job on the find! Hopefully one of these days I'll be dangling a few of them on my lanyard... or....... maybe I should just go to the park and pull an ol'Jeff Foiles move! Bread + Bat + Banded Duck = Sweet lanyard! lol.

[Crazy_Farmer]

No each reward can only be given out once. And I've even read a few accounts of people who report reward bands and they've expired. Not sure if they put time limits on them so there's not potentially 10000s of dollars out there to be claimed instead of less capital.

Sorry on the cans, if I had pictures of some I'd of shot some already but we have next to none here, sea gooses I can help you with but not too many sea duck pictures, odd Harlie or scoter here or there.

[Blair]

How did you get all the numbers off the band without killing it?

[Crazy_Farmer]

Took pictures of it in a 360* angle going around it. Took awhile but I got all of them, like 15 digits altogether for both bands

[6.5x55]

that must have been one very confused duck to have this crazy farmer crawling around him in circles while constantly shooting pictures. the mental image is worth $100 LOL great going crazy

[Livewire322]

Do you receive a payment if the duck is killed?

[Crazy_Farmer]

Do you receive a payment if the duck is killed?

Yep, it has to do with the reward band. Report the green band and you'll get money aslong as it hasnt been reported prior or the reward didnt expiry which I've heard can happen after a certain amount of years so there's not a ton of money potentially out there.

[Sako 75]

2 season ago, while hunting ducks with another HBC member, I shot a double greenies and one them got a green band which is $100.00 reward and other feet it had regular silver band. I tried to get my friend to post the pictures.

[lorneparker1]

THis was matts bird from today!

Lorne

[huntcoop]

Seems like alotta work for $100.00, you should have just shot it and saved a world of grief.

[Crazy_Farmer]

Easy to say but they sortof frown upon that in a city park. :wink:

[huntcoop]

Giver and snipe 'em with a pellet pistol, just get'r done :lol: easier than rolling around in the muck trying to take pix. With the look in avatar park patrons may just turn a blind eye :wink: