Bling!! :)

[Tanya]

Well, well, my first jewelry in a fifteen years of duck hunting.:-D In the frozeness of yesterday's snowy hunt we didn't realize I'd shot a banded mallard until John was cleaning them.

INFORMATION FROM OUR FILES:

Band Number: 1917-42316
Species: MALLARD
Date banded: 08/10/2010
Banding Location: 40 MI W OF FAIRBANKS, MINTO LAKES, YUKON-KOYUKUK CENSUS AREA, ALASKA, USA
Age: HATCHED IN 2010
Sex: MALE

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[fearnodeer]

Congrats and nice pot of ducks.

[BiG Boar]

15 years of duck hunting? It took me and Open-Sights like a few days to get 2.

[Crazy_Farmer]

Congrats! I've read alot of reports of banded birds being shot this year from that general area in alaska. Must be of been a big project the past few years.

And bigboar, haha you're the exception not the rule

[Chessieguy]

Congrats...John gets a Eurasian and you get a band... That's a heck of a start to 2012!!!

[Tanya]

15 years of duck hunting? It took me and Open-Sights like a few days to get 2.

John has taken a few through the years. We don't get that many through here, guess Bling is more in vogue on the mainland :D

[cavebear]

Nice work on the band and the cleaning job :)

[TheProvider]

congrats on the first band after 15yrs, thats a long time waiting.

[Foxton Gundogs]

Nothing like "redneck bling" for a country girl.....and she cooks to lol...Congrats.

[heyblast]

Congrats on the band.

[open-sights]

CONGRATS!!!!!! awesome to see a few bands taken this season.

[Tanya]

Nothing like "redneck bling" for a country girl.....and she cooks to lol...Congrats.

Yes, if only I had two, I could make earrings :) I guess until then a lovely necklace.

[Gateholio]

What's the deal with getting bands? Is it just because it's different, or can you go online and see where they were banded or?

[Tanya]

What's the deal with getting bands? Is it just because it's different, or can you go online and see where they were banded or?

You don't often get them, and it is interesting to see where the birds may have been. Some range very far, Nunavut, NWT, this one was Alasks, and apparently some of birds from the same banding project have been taken on the mainland. Some guys make keep them on their call lanyards.

[GoldNGun Retrievers]

NICE BLING, Havn't gotten one for a couple of years now. Used to get more in Alberta when I worked out there, only think I've ever gotten one here. When are you leaving for Vegas? Louise and I leave on the 31st.

[FirePower]

I have managed a goodly number in Alberta and Sask. and the YT but nairy a one in B.C. My wife has 5 here,2 the same flockback in 2009. I am begining to believe perhaps it is a lady thing,for the most part, sorry BB, no slight on your manhood intended. Well done.