Bluewings on the move?

[Carl]

It's about time for bluewings to start moving.
Has anyone seen any in their neck of the woods?
The earliest I can remember seeing them down here on the Gulf Coast is around August 20th.

 

[Capt Jeff Kraynik]

We fished a tourney in Aripeka (Weeki Wachee) & we had a flock of (7) seven teal fly over the yaks.

 

[Eric Dellamater]

nope, still seeing tons of them in WI right now...

give us a few weeks and then you can have all the duckies we breed since they won't give us a teal season.

 

[Matt Masters]

I've been seeing them off and on in small groups here in North Alabama since early July.

 

[John Van Houten]

Was in Harvey ND, August 4th walleye fishing and there were plenty of ducklings with the hens.

 

[mike braden]

Seeing lots of BWT with GWT in my neck of the woods

 

[Paul Meisenheimer]

Noticed the resident BW have been absent the last few days and wondered if they were starting to move. I got a report of a few showing themselves at Long Point on Lake Erie. They normally hang around there until the first cool nights and then they are gone.

 

[Al Hansen]

Our teal season is normally towards the end of September----this year beginning on the 22nd and ending on the 30th.
We usually have the adult males go through here and are in Mexico before the season begins. The action we get is when the juvenile bluewing/cinnamons go through here. The adult female bluewing/cinnamon teal then come through here after the teal season but before our late October opener for the regular season.
Most of our teal come from the southeastern Alberta area. Since we have so little water right now I haven't seen much.

During the 2010/2011 teal season 18 of the 21 taken were juveniles
During the 2011/2012 teal season 34 of the 35 taken were juveniles
Al

 

[Clint]

Carl,

Saw a single drake and a flock of about 25 on Whiskey Island (Part of the Isle Deniere chain) last week while surveying piping plover.

Clint

 

[Carl]

Clint, isnt that where LCPRA is building or is planning to build a big restoration project?

 

[Clint]

Yes, that's why we are surveying PIPL, to assess impacts for the Biological Opinion. It's planned for next summer....means I get to go to Cocodrie everyother week for most of the next year...

Clint

 

[Carl]

Sure are worse places to be in the Fall and Winter!

I'm just getting my NRDA ERP project out at Marsh Island kicked off. We should have a design and engineering company under contract next month.
No PIPL or other T&E species there. Just your regular shore/wading birds and maybe some mottled ducks.

 

[TimConner]

Seen 2 groups of maybe 20 birds each while fishing this morning, fishing was ok too post cold front that came in last night.