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Beautiful tribute Michael. Carl, my son Caleb had a real hard time getting his first drake bufflehead. Partly due to few drakes in the groups that came in and his inability to manage the lead on crossing shots. I started telling him to try to shoot the hen in front of the drake because I knew...

Kevin, I was looking at your foamer squaws today and it got me thinking when I was starting to make foam decoys. It was 23 years ago and your squaws are way ahead of where I was for several months. Of course I had no one to ask, no way to shorten the learning curve. My first ones were...

Those are some nice looking squaws. It will be nice to lay a nice drake across them for a photo some day. With your description for the make up of a group of birds, sounds like the same old hen heavy look. That said, the only species I've noticed that keys in on hen heavy spreads is...

I'm kind of wondering if that won't be a plus to have a half dozen oldsquaw. Now another consideration is about drake to hen ratio. From experience, we decoy bufflehead better to hen heavy groups, my regular bufflehead spread is 9 hens, 2 drakes. It gets to the point that nearly every one...

The oldsquaw Caleb shot was just doing a swing pass over the decoys, as if he was just hoping to find company. We see that with barrows, swing passes in range over commons, but until we put out barrows decoys we never had them land, now it's common to land them, there are a lot more barrows...

Good work on those oldsquaws, I need to make some of those by fall, we see a few here each year and they are always by themselves. It makes me think they are species specific like barrows. I'd sure like to get one, my son shot a juvie drake about 10 years ago. That's an awesome piece of...

Keep posting photos Kevin, we can all learn something from each other. I try to get better everyday. Something that may surprise some is that I still have a reference photo in front of me, both carving and painting. by now you'd think I could do it all by memory, but even painting a mallard...

I finished 4 more blacks this afternoon. I still have a dozen wigeons and a pair of redheads to finish, but not today.

Lots of decoys going in the shop these days. I'm finally getting a few of them finished up. I had 52 decoys in the shop the first of the week in various stages of incompleteness. I guess that number will drop 18 by the end of the day. These are carved and sculpted, I think of carving as...

I'm going to sneak these Mottled ducks in here. I just finished them this morning. Tough paint job, painting over flocking is a real challenge on stuff like this. I'm really flying blind on these guys, I just know nothing about mottled ducks. I'm liking the relaxed pose more and more, it's...