First Gadwalls of the Year Have Arrived

Carl

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Our office overlooks the Blakeley River in Spanish Fort, AL.
We were talking business when one our biologist looked out the window and spotted a flock of ducks landing in mid-river (the river is 1/2 mile wide at this point).
Broke out the spotting scopes and counted about 50 gadwalls in the group.
Looks like this first cold front of the year brought them down.
No better way to say Fall has finally arrived.
 
Hard to say, by the way they are acting (loafing in the middle of the river), I think they came in overnight on the north winds.

It was a non-event for us in coastal Alabama, we didn't even get any rain, just clouds and 10-25 mph winds. Some minor "king tide" flooding.

Cant say the same for over in Florida and southeast AL.
Panama City, Port St. Joe and Apalachicola are a real mess, a lot of homes and businesses are destroyed.
Areas inland along the path are a pretty torn up too.
 
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I watched the weather channel with great interest, thought for sure you were gonna get hit glad it missed you.
Presently 59 degrees in s/e ohio, predicted high 30's this weekend.
 
Saw more gadwalls this morning, looks like a few more came down with this latest front.

Hopefully this trend keep up.
 
Dani said:
Saw LOTS and LOTS of gadwall last week in MT
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Without photos, there is no evidence you were actually in MT last week.,,,,


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Weeeeellllllll I was surely there. And I gotta tell ya, it was quite cold one day....those concrete walls just don't give off much heat

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Carl said:
Cant say the same for over in Florida and southeast AL.
Panama City, Port St. Joe and Apalachicola are a real mess, a lot of homes and businesses are destroyed.
Areas inland along the path are a pretty torn up too.
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Over here in Tallahassee, we got lucky though there are still people here without power. I think my house had no power for about 5 days and I got lucky with just a yard full of debris. Still, plenty of people here had houses crushed by trees but that was "nothing" compared to Mexico Beach and the others you've named. I feel incredibly bad for the people who live a mere 90 miles from me.
 
HAH!!!!!
They otta lock you up just for the company you keep on these trips!!!!

(dont tell Steve I said that)
 
Appropo this Gadwall thread, I took the car tour of the Montezuma National Refuge in Upstate New York on this past Monday on the way to Buffalo. Each of the major pools was filled with Gadwall. A Gadwall Nation on the move. A smattering of widgeon was mixed in and a few GWT and Blue Wings. Very few mallards and black ducks.
 
Carl, I don't doubt that I am on some known associates of ???? list of some of those people I hunt with up there. Steve and I are probably the angels among the company we keep...scary thought eh??? That Steve would be considered an angel?
 
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