fine work on the barrows and I feel your paint on the vermiculation on the pintail. Without a paint pen and an airbrush to blend out and shadow I'm not sure I could even do that.
you can't really see much other than black on my barrows heads, but there is blue, green, purple. On my commons I'll do a little stronger green. I don't know what barrows and commons are looking for, but there is definitely something they can identify. I've told this before, but several years ago a friend asked me if I had any barrows decoys, he knew my theory on barrows and decoying. He had been hunting with common goldeneye the week before and saw hundreds of barrows, none of them decoyed, only common GE decoyed. I suppose our situation is unique to some, a river no more than 90 yards across, very few people actually decoy goldeneye, they pass shoot, then hop in the boat and chase down the cripples. My friend asked me about using my barrows decoys and the rule around here is if you are hunting over my decoys, I had better be with them. The next week four of us ended up with 14 barrows and only one common, along with an oldsquaw and a few mallards. whether the GE recognize the differences, I'd have to say yes. The barrows down here never see barrows decoys except for mine and the reaction is pretty fun to watch, they nearly turn themselves inside out. I'm assuming the " friend" from that day made his own barrows decoys, he never invited me again.
