Determined Little Bastages

[BOGSTER]

Wood ducks never cease to amaze me.
I can watch em all day and not get bored.
I went down to one of the beaver ponds about 30 min ago to watch em come and go.
The head of the pond crosses a backcountry road and that road is used alot by neighboring farmers to cut through to 301.
A truck carrying peanuts to palmetto peanut must have come through in the last few days.....there were peanuts all over the road.
Right about dark when the bulk of the show was done i noticed a few woodies swimming down the swamp towards me.
I knelt to stay behind the guard rail and they soon swam to the bank 15ft away.
the little bastards walked up the bank ever so cautiously and preceded to pick at the peanuts inbetween me and the truck.
I watched til i couldn't see much more and flashed my light at them to watch them spring into flight.
What are some of the crazy things ya'll have seen the carolina duck do??

[GMAC]

A buddy had 'em baited up in front of an observation blind a few years ago. I watched about 30 right in front of me. They were totally relaxed. I was suprised at how crabby they were. They fought with one another constantly. They were in 2 - 3 feet of water, and fed by diving.

Another interesting experience I've had with summer ducks is shooting some with their crops packed with pecans.

[Drylok]

I have seen them land close to dark, on a hill full of blackjack oaks, hundreds of yards away from water.

I have seen this in two different spots.

I have also seen them go way out of their way to get deer corn as well. A woodie don't need water if he wants something bad enough.

I still am not sure what the blackjack ducks were up to...

[WoodieWhacker]

I would guess that they were going to eat acorns. I have killed them before and they just be busting open with acorns.

I love the way they can fly through tree limbs without killing theirselves.

[BS]

I saw two land in a tree and crawl inside a hole in the tree last year turkey hunting. Water was nowhere around. I guess they had a nest in the tree. Come to think of it, they are called wood ducks. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Turd Ferguson]

I have been sitting in a tree stand before and a pair of them landed in the tree no more than 4 feet above my head- I could see the drake easily and the hen was directly on top of me- I was waiting to be "shatted" on- interesting day it was

[Mergie Master]

I've seen them land in oak trees a long way from water then fly down and eat acorns. While sitting in a deer stand I've watched them climb out of the creek and walk way up into the hardwood chasing acorns that squirrels were knocking down like they were a bunch of chickens.

[btduckcall]

last year sitting in a stand i watched thirteen come out of creek up to my feeder and eat, they stayed in the creek for an hour before they walked up, one tried when they first came in but the coons chased him out was 7 coons under the feeder. wildest site i every saw, once the coons left the woodies walked up the bank and then the tree rats came out. wish i could take pics like squatty and idle or had a video camera

[Scott Dickert]

anybody see the primos truth video where the goose landed in the tree in a hardwood ridge. i think it was turkey huntin bout two or three years ago

[GobblerHntr]

bt, I sat in the stand yesterday afternoon and watched 4 coons eat the corn on the ground around the feeder. Two of them climbed up the legs of the feeder and proceeded to feast on what they could get their hands on. This went on for nearly 30 minutes. I was HIGHLY tempted to try to shoot one of them off the feeder but I held back. However........................ I did get a picture

[scduckhuntr]

The wife and I woke up for our morning run. Went past a neighbor's house and saw two woodies flush from a high branch of a pine tree. Run there alot , never saw em there before that day.


After a hunt on another day a buddy and I were checking a hole in sparkleberry he had corned a weeks earlier. We pulled the boat to land and walked in...got back to the boat, a woodie hen is flappin on the water near the boat. She had apperently been winged by another hunter that morn and was very much alive. I put her out of her misery and sho nuff she was wearing jewelry! Laurel, MD band. That was Christmas Eve..next morn shot a SCWA bird with jewelry also, not a rare find but 2 bands in 2 days ain't bad!! [img]graemlins/hunter.gif[/img]

[Aging Baby Boomer]

About fifteen years ago a hurricane came through and flattened my father-in-law's corn field before harvest. No chance of putting a combine in it. So he did the only thing he could - turned his cattle in on the field.

After a few weeks the field was littered with corn-filled cow patties - and the wood ducks found it. His field was high and dry and about a mile from Little Pee Dee River swamp. About dusk dark every night the woodies began circling the field - hundreds and hundreds of them!

If undisturbed they fed for several hours in the dark, but always left well before daylight the next morning.

But it was one year only. Hasn't ever happened again.