Al Hansen
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in the desert. I was looking through some pictures I took a couple of years ago and maybe this will give you an idea of what you might expect.
This first shot was taken in August when I drove my four-wheeler right to the spot that I wanted to build a blind. All of these are built with hopes that there will be water there when the season opens. Not always is that true however.
One month later after couple of good rains when the Rio Grande started to run this is the way it looked.
This was a great spot for three years, then the food source (smart weed) was choked out by the cattails. The last time I went down to check on this spot, I didn't recognize it because it was solid cattails with no openings.
Two years ago I was hunting a spot during early teal season that was just fantastic. During our monsoon season in late August, one area got a tremendous amount of rain. The arroyo ran high and filled a spot that the teal happened to find and like.
I hunted it three days and then called my friend to tell him about all of the ducks that were coming in to this hole. I couldn't hunt it on Friday because I was going to be teaching, so he called his buddy in Albuquerque to come hunt with him. The following morning they wandered out to the spot and Tim told me that he thought he was losing it because he couldn't find it. When it got light enough he finally understood. From Thursday morning when I hunted it and shot four bluewing teal to Friday morning when Tim and his friend were there---all of the water had evaporated. There was not one drop to be seen.
Duck hunting is definitely different in the desert.
Al
This first shot was taken in August when I drove my four-wheeler right to the spot that I wanted to build a blind. All of these are built with hopes that there will be water there when the season opens. Not always is that true however.
One month later after couple of good rains when the Rio Grande started to run this is the way it looked.
This was a great spot for three years, then the food source (smart weed) was choked out by the cattails. The last time I went down to check on this spot, I didn't recognize it because it was solid cattails with no openings.
Two years ago I was hunting a spot during early teal season that was just fantastic. During our monsoon season in late August, one area got a tremendous amount of rain. The arroyo ran high and filled a spot that the teal happened to find and like.
I hunted it three days and then called my friend to tell him about all of the ducks that were coming in to this hole. I couldn't hunt it on Friday because I was going to be teaching, so he called his buddy in Albuquerque to come hunt with him. The following morning they wandered out to the spot and Tim told me that he thought he was losing it because he couldn't find it. When it got light enough he finally understood. From Thursday morning when I hunted it and shot four bluewing teal to Friday morning when Tim and his friend were there---all of the water had evaporated. There was not one drop to be seen.
Duck hunting is definitely different in the desert.
Al