Cinnamon @ Savannah River?

[mudnut1970]

I killed two back in 1990. The place was in a tank in Texas while shooting sand hill cranes. No pic but they made a turd.

[L C Hillbilly]

Yeah......show me the proof that's Savannah, GA.

What kind of proof would convince you? Do you want me to poach it and hold it up in front of the welcome to Georgia sign? I don't really care if you believe me or not. I will say a photographer told us where he was and said he has been there every day for about a week.

[duckboy84]

Yep I would def go Gamo his ass tomorrow. Just sayin.

[huntinghagen#12]

I love those little birds. Only seen a handful in my life and only one in the hand.

[quackaddict]

They pissed me off this year. They start showing back up around the middle of Jan out here. I missed on bigger than shit on the 12th. Thought for sure I had at least one nailed down for the last weekend. Found some the Monday before the season closed and hunted that same spot Saturday and Sunday, but they never showed back up. I did kill one in Sept. though.

[fro]

weather delay today. I'm abt to go stir crazy already. I'ma run over to the refuge and have a look see... hold tight. now if I can find where I put those damn pellets....

[Ring King]

They kill one or two in Florida almost every year.

[dcmbsc]

Talked to local bird watcher, she said she sees them a lot near cape Canaveral at a local refuge in North east Florida.

[Ring King]

He must be a very lonely boy hanging out with all that trash...

Funny you say that. They call them cinni-spoons out here and regard them as glorified shovelers. They are a beautiful bird but most folks in Cali consider them as a trash duck. They'd shoot GWT over cinnimons. At the same time people get all crazy and worked up over a blue winged teal here because they're much less common!

[Ring King]

Talked to local bird watcher, she said she sees them a lot near cape Canaveral at a local refuge in North east Florida.

That would have to be Black Point. It holds massive amounts of pintails, mottleds, and widgeon, but I have a hard time believing that she sees the "a lot" there as they are still an uncommon bird in Florida. I guess stranger things have happened though. There was an immature king eider drake hanging off the beach in Pensacola two years ago!

[marsh chicken]

I killed one on my first trip to arkansas. It was only my third year duck hunting, so I had no idea how special it was to shoot one. Cleaned the SOB and ate him right along with the other ducks. I still kick myself...

[CAMO SNOB]

I have a hard time believing that she sees the "a lot" there as they are still an uncommon bird in Florida.

a lot means more than one

[dcmbsc]

That would have to be Black Point. It holds massive amounts of pintails, mottleds, and widgeon, but I have a hard time believing that she sees the "a lot" there as they are still an uncommon bird in Florida. I guess stranger things have happened though. There was an immature king eider drake hanging off the beach in Pensacola two years ago!

Florida keeps on looking better and better...

[Gander]

Funny you say that. They call them cinni-spoons out here and regard them as glorified shovelers. They are a beautiful bird but most folks in Cali consider them as a trash duck. They'd shoot GWT over cinnimons. At the same time people get all crazy and worked up over a blue winged teal here because they're much less common!

^this. Used to kill quite a few when I lived in SoCal. In fact, we kept one as a pet that was wing tipped. Until one day in the summer when we were playing in the pool and someone let our Lab out who promptly retrieved it. Talk about some unhappy kids.

Now kill a wood duck on the west coast and you will see some folks getting all worked up.

[Swamp Rat]

There used to be a few that showed up in the ponds at Patriots Point Golf Course. They ARE occasional visitors to SC. According to the biologist last week, there were a couple seen at Murphy and The Cape this year.

I shot a couple down in Argentina.

Regarding their close relationship with shovelers... I have heard that cinnamon teal AND blue wing teal are more closely related to spoonies than to greenwing teal.

[Slaya]

Despite what all you naysayers believe (read, that asshole Fish, hehehe), I've seen one in person. Kilt by some folks on a draw hunt at Bear Island. I didn't take a picture, because it wasn't my kill, and it didn't occur to me to start taking pictures of other folks' ducks.

[GobblerHntr]

There used to be a few that showed up in the ponds at Patriots Point Golf Course. They ARE occasional visitors to SC. According to the biologist last week, there were a couple seen at Murphy and The Cape this year.

I shot a couple down in Argentina.

Regarding their close relationship with shovelers... I have heard that cinnamon teal AND blue wing teal are more closely related to spoonies than to greenwing teal.

Those you shot in Argentina were also a sub-species of the Cinnamon if you want to get all technical and all

[Swamp Rat]

True dat. Doesn't matter that much to me. There are several subspecies of white tail deer in South Carolina alone.

[Glenn]

We kill one or two a year on Blalock but oddly none on Bowen.

[FreeLiner]

Old Gerber Mill pond in Pelzer holds a few...