Limit of mallards in Huntsville
- Thread starter Carl
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Big Spring Park? You used to be able to bring your own bread and feed them and the Koi. Then, some HSV city leaders decided that was unfair and banned it.
roy brewington
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Dock ducks. Funny story to come. Years ago Md. DNR used to release pen raised Mallard's about middle of Sept. on rivers and bayfront . Of course they released them easiest place they could get to water from a landing. Sometimes those birds were so acclimated to human presence meaning food they stayed near those landings. Many times we would return to ramp after a mornings hunting with zilch to show and Half a Dz. mallards would be swimming around where we launched boat .
Time to utilize one of the legal "primitive weapons".
Really? I hadn't heard that. Unfair how? I wonder if they find the Soup Kitchen unfair for giving out bread.
Doesn't take much to acclimate even wild ducks to people with food. There is a spot I drive past on my way to the usual boat ramp for tidal hunts. Small brook in the middle of town that, due to groundwater inputs, stays warm and unfrozen all winter. Of course the ducks find it whenever other freshwater starts to freeze up. Right in the middle of a residential neighborhood and across the street from a college, and students and homeowners alike toss food to them from whenever they show up until they leave. We sometimes see 50+ blacks and mallards there quacking for popcorn after we've spent 3 hours hunting their relatives down on the salt who flare if they see a head turn.
Years ago my wife and I visited Kauai Island, Hawaii. The island is overrun with chickens and the whole time I am thinking how tasty they would be, free range and all. One day I got to talking with a local and asked why nobody was eating them. The lady I asked got quite offended and said, "We get our chicken at KFC like everyone else!"
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