Recent content by RLLigman

Thanks, Steve, I knew I could count on the usual overly glib response to an aside conversation. You do yourself proud, again.

That is an excellent idea, Bob, well worth "stealing"! As I have said before, plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. I wrenched my back the day prior the UP duck opener while Steve and I were scouting. My back never settled down, so I had an MRI done. While discussing whether a...

Bob, I gave up on posting from a zip-file and redid the pics separately..grrrr! I suspect that this head style is a breeding posture display, but it is an interesting addition. The bird on the left has its head feathers flared, while the bird on the right in the picture is displaying with...

It will be interesting to hear what their diagnosis is on that red-tail. NPR/Michigan reported this morning that Washtenaw, Livingston, Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, MaComb and Menominee counties have reported positive cases of avian flu in birds sampled. A small group of Rufus-sided towhees were...

I noticed that Bob used the same redhead reference photo that caught my eye when I wanted to make some decoys with different postures. Took photos of the four birds I have in my rig and can't post them for some reason

I carved four variations of the raised head redheads from that same picture a couple of years ago. Out of seven pics, I managed to get four to stay attached to be sent...

Carl, here are some updated snowdepth numbers...

I normally hunt from southeast of Plaza over to just east of Max, northwesterly up into the Wildrose/Crosby area, which encompasses a big chunk of the Coteau country in that area of North Dakota. That drought monitor map you posted indicated that this area was still in moderate drought, grading...

A "back-yard" poultry flock in Menominee, Michigan has now been documented to be infected with the avian flu variant H5N1. First case in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in domestic poultry.

Current total accumulations of snow range from 12-20 inches, with all but five counties in the southeastern corner of North Dakota closed due to a blizzard warning. Snowfall from this system extends well-north into Canada. An additional system is about to come onshore in the Pacific Northwest...

Three day forecast for Minot, ND calls for 24 -38 inches of wet snow over the next three days.

Heavy snow forecast for NoDak mid-week...not great for pheasants, but good for ducks.

Whoever commissioned your work will be very happy when they see it. I enlarged it and could find no seams where two different materials were joined together.

Very nice work, Mr. Mitchell! Cork, or wood?

Steve, I suspect that the carver shortened the primaries in an effort to "show" them, but not extend them so far aft as to risk breakage. Bills, primary feathers, and tails seem to be the parts of a decoy that get broken or chipped the most. I just finally finished repairing a wigeon that had...