Hey Carl: Here is where your Redheads are...

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Larry Eckart

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Carl (and guys),
In a recent post, Carl stated that neither the Bills nor the Redheads had shown up in Mobile Bay in usual numbers.

One of my friends in Michigan sent me a note that upon crossing the Mackinac Bridge this past Friday there were, "more Redheads than I have ever seen there."

Mmm. The seasons are about the close up there. If I was a Redhead and the temperatures stay where they are now, I would pull a switcheroo and ignore my instinct to head for the Gulf.

But then I am not a Redhead.

Larry
 
And here is a link to some pics on a smaller bay in NE Michigan, Tawas Bay.

Redheads. Redheads. Redheads.

Larry

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1050858474934348.1073741895.567782319908635&type=3
 
Amazing how the birds always seem to be where I ain't...

Been pretty slim pickens' around these parts. Lasthe year, with the freezing we had, there were birds around. So far this year, not much. Projected highs this weekend - mid 60's. My wife even mowed the lawn this evening. First time I ever remember mowing grass in December.

Thanks for sharing. (I know you didn't mean to be rubbing it in).

Jon.
 
Cool pics.
Talked to a guy who hunts the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana, he said that they are in similar shape: a few gadwalls & a few ringnecks but not in the huge numbers they usually have by now. And all the teal had earlier have disappeared.
 
Could hit 50 deg. F. here today. Thinking of golfing. If I were a duck, why move?

Mark W
 
I was just talking to one of our LEO's about the weather and lack of ducks and mentioned that is was gonna be in the 50's in your neck of the woods. He made the same observation: the ducks have no reason to migrate.

If I was wearing a down coat, I wouldn't want to be flying around in our weather. What few birds we have aren't going to be moving around.
 
Ohio Dnr aerial surveys indicated that the migration as of 11-16 was close to normal for bird movement. Maybe only 3-5 days behind schedule. That was then. I'll be curious what it is currently when the recent results come out.

I wasn't hunting them in the areas they are because I assumed they weren't here, and the real migration in Ohio is in the western part of the state, too far for a day hunt. Guess that shows what assumptions lead to.
 
I picked up a dead redhead last spring that was banded in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Those two locations in Michigan are not too far off of a line drawn between Yorkton and here. Our season opens up again on the 26th. One can only hope!
 
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