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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: tbest3]
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10/25/17 05:56 AM
10/25/17 05:56 AM
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Goatkiller
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Specks or Snows? Maybe both.
I have heard Snows coming over the house in Birmingham many nights around this time. Always close to Halloween like clockwork.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: JayHook]
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10/25/17 08:31 AM
10/25/17 08:31 AM
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Awesome. I love to speck hunt. Hunted over in the flyway for years and at some point it dawned on me that I was wasting all kinds of hunting opportunities by not targeting Specks when the ducks were slow or in the afternoons.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: JayHook]
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10/25/17 11:30 AM
10/25/17 11:30 AM
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Are they just coming into those big swamps between the rivers? Not much AG land down there so I am surprised and do they stick around or head further South I guess FL? I have never seen specks along the coast down there but I'm not down there that much. May not have the numbers, etc.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: Spec]
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10/25/17 12:32 PM
10/25/17 12:32 PM
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We have a place in Clarke cnty. I had never heard a goose over there until 3-4 yrs ago. Now I hear specs and snows every year towards the end of October. They where pilling in last nite here in SW La. I'm sitting out on the farm right Rob. There is so many it's driving me crazy. They are coming from the Klondike/ Gueydan direction and headed towards welsh. Aggravating bastages is so noisy I can't concentrate on the hogs.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: JayHook]
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10/27/17 03:08 PM
10/27/17 03:08 PM
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cartervj
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They aren't coming to Bama purposefully. They just have overshot their destinations while riding the jet stream ahead of the strong cold front. It happens from time to time. Just seems to be happening more often in paST YEARS THAN IT USED TO. They leave immediately with almost no stragglers left behind Yep, I wondered if any Specs actually put down. Same with the Snows/blues, they ride down and fly back the next day it seems.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: JayHook]
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10/28/17 05:10 AM
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cartervj
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By band return data over last 25 years...ducks in MS flyway and wintering ground are moving west. Geese, mainly specks and cacklers, but to a lesser extent snows are moving east. I believe this about the ducks during the 80's. I could look out over Pickwick late in the evening and the numbers of ducks in the air was stammering (thousands in flight at time). I've been in swamps where thousands came in to roost late in the evenings of the last week of the season. Tenn Tom took away the west end of Colberts' birds. As you mention there has been a shift in the MS flyway, I feel a good it of it is from hunting pressure too!
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: cartervj]
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11/02/17 12:04 PM
11/02/17 12:04 PM
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By band return data over last 25 years...ducks in MS flyway and wintering ground are moving west. Geese, mainly specks and cacklers, but to a lesser extent snows are moving east. I believe this about the ducks during the 80's. I could look out over Pickwick late in the evening and the numbers of ducks in the air was stammering (thousands in flight at time). I've been in swamps where thousands came in to roost late in the evenings of the last week of the season. Tenn Tom took away the west end of Colberts' birds. As you mention there has been a shift in the MS flyway, I feel a good it of it is from hunting pressure too! I honestly would think that many here would find that hard to believe about Pickwick. But it is the truth. Even on the river at Decatur as late as the early to mid 1990's there would be so many ducks on the river you could look out there with binoculars and see them rolling over like blackbirds in a field. Thousands. Looked like flies on a giant cow patty out in the stumps in front of Swan Creek. They say they winter the same amount of ducks on Wheeler but I suppose if they winter as many as it will hold when they count... we'll that's as many as it would hold. Obvious to me those counts did not include the river system or they'd have to 1/2 or even less than what they use to winter. No way there are any many birds around up there now. I lived it. Not close.
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Re: Specklebellies over Alabama
[Re: Goatkiller]
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11/02/17 04:09 PM
11/02/17 04:09 PM
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Tenn Tom took away the west end of Colberts' birds. My father has said the same about affecting the ducks that migrated here to North Alabama.
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