Bucket Bird

Dave Diefenderfer

Dave Diefenderfer

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Thought this would be a cool post to keep rolling... we each can post our "bucket birds"

I shot a first for me today, a Redhead!

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This guy decoyed 4 minutes before shooting time! Long 4 minutes! Hunting partner pulled out his phone and counted down for me until shooting time.
 
Congrats Dave! That's a really nice drake!
And those cans & scaup ain't bad either.
 
Dave, congrats on the diver grand slam! That's what I get for taking off to Florida to visit family over the holidays and letting you hunt without me! Best, Rufus
 
Very nice.

I am at Chincoteague this week and hope to kill my first sea duck. Got blanked last year. Gonna hopefully get the weather to give it a go again.
 
Not my first of these... but there is always room for this bird on any "bucket list". Shot today.
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Finished up our season yesterday with an epic hunt! One bird short of our limits, as we were holding out for a widgeon! Heck of a day, when you pass on the bull cans tolling to the decoys because you are hoping you can pick out one of the 3 widgeon flying with a group of gadwalls! We had them land on the ice 50 yards from us, a couple times, but on the wing, in the flat light we could not find them.... only when they were on the ice could we tell them apart....
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However, I did manage another bucket bird.... shot my first gadwalls, and boy are the drakes pretty! Also shot our redhead limits with 4 drakes.... so now the taxidermist has something to chose from for my mount. After we had our 4 redheads, we had a pr of drakes, sleeping in the decoys! Interesting to see them tuck their heads, and still swim in small circles. Bumping into themselves and the decoys and still their heads were tucked? I need more tuck head decoys in my spread!

Had to break from 5 inches to 2 inches of ice to get out. Took 2.5 hours to reach our spot! But it was worth the work.
 
All the pictures are great, of course, but I would really love to get a couple of red heads for a nice mount. Those are some nice looking ducks! Never shot a canvasback either so that would bee nice.
 
Dave, nice pics. Glad you had a great day shooting. Had a great day with you guys, wish I could have made the day. Hit some heavy weather going back, nice to have two boats together. Hope to do it again.
Have a good winter...
 
Very nice birds, that's a pile of red you got there! A really nice drake redhead has been one of my bucket birds for a while too, I have managed to get a few hens but a nice drake has always eluded me. Then, with 2 days to go in our duck season last week, I managed to luck into this guy:

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I really went back and forth over whether to take him to the taxidermist or keep him for the crockpot, but in the end my belly won out and we had a really nice campfire on a cross-country ski trip and roasted him in the dutch oven with potatoes, carrots, and homemade apricot jam. I'm glad I didn't send him to the taxidermist!
 
Dave, congrats! That's a fine bag. Way to go on your first red. All this cold really added up to a great late season for a lot of us.
 
Dave, best pic of the season, and fitting, coming on the last day during the worst (best for duck hunters) cold snap in this area in twenty years! Congrats, wish I had been there, Rufus
 
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