So is it Widgeon or Wigeon

[TXFowler]

Those suckers might as well be blind they’re so cooperative. If you can ID in flight and hit them with the whistle, you may as well go ahead and fire up the grill (as long as you do your part and put the steel to them). They can’t help but do it right, every time. I e seen some ducks do some downright dumb stuff and every one of them was a wigeon!


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[GMAC]

Sheeit. I once saw a pintail drake passing over so high we didnt even crouch down . Directly overhead, he turned over on his back, folded his wings, and dropped into the spread like a rock. Ive seen black ducks decoy while i was standing in the decoys wrapping line. Ducks do some suprising things, and not just wi(d)geon.

[sprigdog]

Those suckers might as well be blind they’re so cooperative. If you can ID in flight and hit them with the whistle, you may as well go ahead and fire up the grill (as long as you do your part and put the steel to them). They can’t help but do it right, every time. I e seen some ducks do some downright dumb stuff and every one of them was a wigeon!


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Sure in a perfect world. Out here in Oklahoma, pintails are the stupid ones. Absolutely retarded.
There is safety in numbers. Oklahoma wigeon are in flocks of 20-50.
Now a single wigeon, dead. Pert near every time.

[TXFowler]

Sheeit. I once saw a pintail drake passing over so high we didnt even crouch down . Directly overhead, he turned over on his back, folded his wings, and dropped into the spread like a rock. Ive seen black ducks decoy while i was standing in the decoys wrapping line. Ducks do some suprising things, and not just wi(d)geon.

Yes I have seen other species do some dumb things, but not nearly what I have witnessed wigeon. I’ve had a grey duck land 15 yards from me while I was un tangling the jerk string that the dog drug to the bank with him.


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[TXFowler]

Sure in a perfect world. Out here in Oklahoma, pintails are the stupid ones. Absolutely retarded.
There is safety in numbers. Oklahoma wigeon are in flocks of 20-50.
Now a single wigeon, dead. Pert near every time.

That’s crazy. Pintails have always been the wariest of birds in my experience. I can’t recall a time I’ve seen one do anything but circles 30 times and either commit or get the hell out. Must be all the fumes from the marijuana on the WEST coast.


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*Edited to un-correct my phones autocorrect.

[abarill]

^we had a drake pintail circling way above us this year in the outer banks that none of us saw. We were getting picked up soon, and I was walking in the decoys. My buddy goes “you wanna get down here so we can maybe shoot another pintail?”

I handed him my gun so I could get in the curtain blind, and this pintail dropped right in. Asshole shot it with my gun. Good thing I already had mine for the day.

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[JABIII]

Not the sharpest fowl in the field, which makes them pretty fun to whack when you are where they want to be...

[BOGSTER]

https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/dusky-duck


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I believe JJ had confused the mottled and the black back then.

[JABIII]

I believe that you are correct. The Mexi mallard would have really thrown him for a loop...

[sprigdog]

Well, went back to the same log. Killed a giant GWT/Wigeon hybrid crossbreed.
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[joeydpga]

Dang right, got any other pictures of the “hybrid”?

[sprigdog]

Dang right, got any other pictures of the hybrid?

Nope, but I got this awesome rainbow pic today.
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[ziggy]

man oklahoma sure is pretty!

[BCR3]

Impressive!

[mudminnow]

Are you sure that isn’t a Eurasian wigeon. I trust your I’d skills, but Eurasian is the first thing I thought when I saw that pic

[mudminnow]

Or maybe I didn’t pick up on a joke

[drwilly]

hunted oklahoma for a week about 25 years ago. potholes on an army base and lakes. tons of ducks. I had no idea at the time. great pics SD

[BigBrother]

Well, went back to the same log. Killed a giant GWT/Wigeon hybrid crossbreed.
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Dandy hybrid. What is the hybrid count up to this year?

[sprigdog]

Believe it or not, that’s the first of the season!

Totally blame that on not hardly hunting the wigeon/pintail spots this year(basically the bay).
Focused on teal/mallards for the first 3 months primarily.
The new marsh they built(across from ramp) was absolutely plugged with smartweed.
It was fun. We flooded bad a couple weeks ago and washed all the feed out. It’s a ghost town now.
So, back to slumming with wigeon.