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2010 Sea Duck Banding (voluntarily) while working toward becoming a full time biologist (ended up a deer biologist despite my waterfowl efforts): 2020: A year and a half removed from Government work to preserve my sanity, running my own waterfowl taxidermy business (and selling a few decoys)...

Lots of Black Ducks going this month, this one I kinda like a bit more than the others, I might keep her And Had a lot of pheasants come in all in the same clip back in November, I was able to get a quick photo before they started going to their respective homes:

Steve, WOW! I knew you were the right guy to restore that mallard for me! He will rest proudly alongside his Old Saybrook brethren Pintail and Wigeon drakes on my shelf, but maybe I'll take him down to old saybrook next december to see to show him his home town and see if he has one more hunt...

I can't believe I missed this... I never had the pleasure of meeting Steve in person but we exchanged a handful of (always colorful) emails over the years, to label him a "character" was an understatement. I always remember him picking on me (possibly on this site) for saving the cork from...

Thank you Steve! These sail feathers are made from leather. I typically use leather on birds that will be hunted and Hardwood inserts on decoys that will live on a shelf.

3 King Eider I finished up this morning

This will be my first visit to Tuckerton, look forward to seeing your boat work in person Steve!

Heres my take on the ringer...with a couple of head variations. I Just draw the top view of the head indivdually on the wood and the side of the body i do the same, makes every decoy a bit different.

Thank you Dani!

Recently finished up a set of Wood Duck Silhouettes

The boat is amazing....but no need for a trailer has me sold!!! I've often thought of building a sneak that was catered to the dimensions of my truck bed. My next build for sure haha. Man do I hate trailers!

Hats off to you Bob, That piece is a truly amazing work of art. Well done!

Thank you Vince, and yes....carving that one made me want to burn through the rest of what I have.....and buy more!

Hen Bufflehead From a Devlin (Scaup?) laying out with my dad, the boat built by dad and his friends. Niantic Bay, 1992, with my 870 I still use today...I've had many guns since buy they just dont make them like they used to [cool] and that gun has outlasted them all.

Thanks Mark, I'm a wood hoarder (I bet most of us carvers/boat builders are[;)]) so I use whatever fits the bird from marine ply to pine board to cedar scrap...that being said I believe these are both marine ply scrap. This Black Duck I did last night uses cedar salvaged from an old closet lining!

A Gadwall and a Surf Scoter to share this morning:

Nicely done Steve, one of my favorite birds. Here is one I have mounted my friends and I shot here on the East Coast a few years back, mounted by Todd Huffman:

Cool Stories all! Watching Raptors while duck hunting seems to be a common thread for many of us, here are my favorite two...sorry I cant choose just one! First was on a local salt marsh known for its Short-eared owls in the winter. I watched for quite a while as one of the (winter) resident...

Good morning all, nice work as always. Steve I'm always partial to those wildfowler scaup, I own quite a few that I tell myself someday I will repair and put back into commission! Heres my current workbench, its full of mergansers: Here is a recently finished Surf Scoter: and lastly, as of...