Oh--No! The Dreaded----

Awesome pics and story Al!! I was a fisheries and wildlife major at NCSU...sure wish I would have ventured over to the feathered kind as opposed to working with aquaculture!!

Brad
 
UW-Stevens Point!!! Thats my old stomping grounds. I don't think I ever had him as a professor but he looks familiar. Most of my biology class were in the CNR (College of Natural Resources) building.

Pat, five of Bev's seven kids went to UW-Stevens Point. My son went there also. I had fun reminiscing of all the high school basketball games I reffed in that town.
Al
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Al, do they get any mortality from shooting the net over the water? We've always made shots over land. Just curious. The Teal band does look like a size 5, but I've killed Teal with ones that size. Fascinating that the "No fences in the sky" theory holds true as band returns have always been a source of wonderment. A friend in Iceland killed a Mallard banded in Wisconsin and a Japanese Pintail was killed in Mississippi last year. Never know what will show up. Looks like a fun and interesting morning. Did you get any retraps?

Sure hope with each passing day you are feeling better.
I have been to about a half dozen of these shoots and this is only the second time that we lost a bird. It happened to be a greenwing teal.
I think we had about a half dozen recaptures. I know they had a separate box just for them. Some day I am going to sit down with the biologist and pick his brain for all of the different places in North America that their banded birds have been taken.
Al
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Brillant, would have loved to have been there, very intresting must have been good to take part. will be intresting to see were they end up. We dont tend to band wildfowl in the UK, alot of song birds but not really wildfowl. So thanks for sharing. Scotty
 
Al,
very good shoot. Ours dont have a background like that(Us. a sewer plant or school building) and they dont have a Biologist like that either(Sorry Minn).
Good job keeping the camera on the Ducks!

Bob
 
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