Anniversary duck band!!!

Jim Bucko

Jim Bucko

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November 3 was my 10 year wedding anniversary. For years I have asked my wife to go duck hunting with me and she never would brave the marshes. Last night she gave me a new wedding band seeing how I lost mine with in the first year of being married while Salmon fishing on Lake Michigan and I wore a “replacement” ever since. The new wedding band is a gold avise bird band duck band with the date of our wedding followed by a 10 for ten years. Very special, very thoughtful!!

This morning I hit the Connecticut River again and after yesterday’s hunt we saw the mallards and black ducks pounding down into a back marsh area not accessible by boat. After a long walk to the back marsh I found it flooded from a beaver dam……no wonder the birds were hammering in there! My first bird was a fat black duck so I had to be careful in the low light & misty rain conditions not to shoot another black duck thinking it was a mallard. I let the birds work right into the decoys and my second bird, a mallard drake, was wearing his own ring on his leg!! The last banded bird I shot was in 1999, 10 years ago……my wedding year. How’s that for karma!!! I hope I don’t have to wait until my 20 year anniversary to take my next band.

Thought it was kind of a cool story to share.
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That is just too cool!!!!
Congratulations on all acccounts: 10 years of marriage, a great wife and a banded mallard.
 
You could divorce her and get married next year - just a thought... Buying a band on ebay would be cheaper, though!

T
 
I saw the ring this afternoon and can confirm that it is very nice indeed. No opinion on why it took ten years since the last band, but the nice bag got me wondering, did you take up water swatting today? :-)) LOL... Just kidding, hope the HS works.
 
Todd, I would rather give up duck hunting forever than divorce this one!!

Stewart, when you can call them into the decoys no need for ground pounding....not that you would know how to do that!! LOL

Jim/Fowlfishing
 
Todd, I would rather give up duck hunting forever than divorce this one!!

Stewart, when you can call them into the decoys no need for ground pounding....not that you would know how to do that!! LOL

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Sounds like she is a catch - I'm a lucky guy in the same boat.

T
 
Jim, that ring is cool.
I saw a pile of Hooded Mergs above the seaport in mystic today walking with the kids. They us. show up after a good N blow. Sounds like you had a heck of a hunt for a present. Curious if your park duck is local or a true migrator. My hopes were dashed with my first band two years ago when it came back from New Haven, not the Great White North I had hoped for.


Cool boat also.
 
I received the certificate today via email on where the mallard was banded.....about 12 miles from where he was taken in Old Saybrook CT in South Cove. Kinda hoping it was going to say Ontario but nevertheless neat to see the birds being banded locally.
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Hey Jim,

I used to be a boat captain and delivered a lot of boats around the US. One delivery I did was a 150 dinner cruise - ferry boat from east Haddam CT to Hawaii, via the Panama canal. It took about a month for all of the due dilligence on the purchase of the boat before I could leave East Haddam, so I got to stay there with Dan Swartz in his cool old B&B. That was a very cool town. I think Dan and his wife moved a long time ago, but did you know them?

John
 
John,
I didn't know Dan, I have only lived in CT for just about 4 years now. Small world, I live right up the hill from the river where you have the boat but on the Haddam side.
Jim Bucko
 
Jim ,Jack has it all right there and congrats on double bands,,,best story ive heard in a long time,now its your turn me son,do sumthin for her that will make her melt like a ice cube in july ,take care

shermie
 
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