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Our season opened Monday but we waited until Tuesday morning to head out. It was pouring and nasty. This morning this is what we woke up to. Daughter and I had a great hunt. Great variety. Bluebills, goldeneyes, teal, wigeon, mallards. 15 birds total. It only lasts a couple weeks before they...

My daughter Jheri decided to do a harlequin 1/2 sized decoy. It's coming right along. She is getting better every bird.

Okay I'm a crazy duck hunter. I saw this on another site and instantly thought " add a blind and brilliant!" I look at boats of various types and figure out how to modify them for various hunting applications. It's an illness. Ha ha

We spent a cold rainy morning cleaning and inspecting goldeneye/bufflehead nesting boxes. Part our summer is volunteering to USFWS study of goldeneyes here in AK. Ice isn't completely out of ponds but we have quite a few boxes with hens in them. The rest of the study team and graduate students...

We started this month off by finishing some birds. My daughter finished painting this drake spoonie and I finished his mate. My daughter is trying her hand at minis. She just did an old squaw, a pintail, and is painting a Buffy drake today. What a way to start the month.

My daughter and I got together with USFWS and AKDFG and volunteered on a summer project. Due to budget and personnel cuts their long term duck studies are at risk. Up here in the boreal forest we have lots of small ponds, lakes, streams. They have 150 nesting boxes for goldeneyes and...

Working on this hen to get my pair of pintail preeners completed. She's got a few coats of sealer and is ready for a final ight sanding this evening and then some paint. I'm fairly pleased with how this pair is coming along.

I'm tinkering with different ways to do vermiculation. Just tried the Sharpie extra fine paint pen. Interesting result.

Well. We're intoa new month and new year. Work continues here in North Pole ( feel like one of Santa's underpaid elves). My daughter and I are turning out birds. She's painting goldeneyes and I'm working on pintails and wigeon.

I built a nice sneak boat when I was younger. It started as plans for a nice little skiff. It morphed into having a top with splash rails, hatches, etc. It putted around using a 5hp Sea King motor ( getting idea of age?). Simple little boat that I killed hundreds of ducks out of. I just ended...

Took a long break from the duckboat page. Been carving alot each winter. A couple years ago I started collaborative work with my daughter. I carve and she paints. Her paint jobs are incredible. This winter she just finished a harlequin. I am rounding out a bunch of goldeneyes for her next...