Took a couple days to hunt the eastern shore of Maryland this week. I’ve been needing a good Common Merganser and Red Breasted Merganser to have all 32 species of ducks in North America mounted. I shot both several years ago, but never had gotten a good drake. I had hunted with Jon a few years ago when I had my yellow lab Daisy. Got a good drake Common then for Daisy to retrieve, along with Brant. I timed it right with the weather. They were coming off the big freeze, and the river opened up on Friday. I was wanting to target Canada Geese too since they get a few subspecies of Canada Goose there. The Mergansers were definitely there. Had 300+ come fly by the blind. Shot a couple nice ones, and my limit of Canada Geese. Yesterday, we hunted a dry bean field from a pit, shooting my limit again of Canada Geese, over a spread of v board decoys. A real classic eastern shore goose hunt. Was a great time. 28C321CE-98D4-4ADE-AE1C-AE481CC99B8D.jpg
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