Teal on the move!

Jeff Reardon

Jeff Reardon

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Anyone seeing teal numbers start to build? I was driving home from a meeting one evening last week and had a small duck fly over the highway and into one of my early season wood duck and teal spots. It was not a wood duck, and I think the only possibilities are bluewing or green wing teal. (This was well inland in central Maine and definitely a puddle duck.) It was dusk and the bird was moving fast, so I couldn't get a positive ID, but my best guess would be bluewing. They usually start stacking up down here in early September and we only see a few remnant birds around with hordes of greenwings when our early season opens in late September.

Bout time to poke around and scout for sora rails. Season opens September 1, and they are usually here, though nuimbers are higher later in the month.
 
Geese starting to bunch up, too. Every recently cut hayfield I pass has 2-3 dozen geese feeding in it. Still all resident birds, but these are a lot bigger groups than I was seeing all summer.
 
Summer is coming to a close when the local geese start to flock and move about again after breeding and molting season. I am much looking forward to this coming season, the last several having been curtailed for one reason or another. Geese in fields, teal starting to show here and there, crickets out and about, black walnuts getting ready to fall from the trees. All those things say "fall is coming" to me.
 
Jeff Reardon said:
Anyone seeing teal numbers start to build? I was driving home from a meeting one evening last week and had a small duck fly over the highway and into one of my early season wood duck and teal spots. It was not a wood duck, and I think the only possibilities are bluewing or green wing teal. (This was well inland in central Maine and definitely a puddle duck.) It was dusk and the bird was moving fast, so I couldn't get a positive ID, but my best guess would be bluewing. They usually start stacking up down here in early September and we only see a few remnant birds around with hordes of greenwings when our early season opens in late September.

Bout time to poke around and scout for sora rails. Season opens September 1, and they are usually here, though nuimbers are higher later in the month.
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I saw a handful of blue wings around Norway/ South Paris area last week. The end of the week as the cold front came in brought more ducks than just the dock mallards I have been seeing previously.

We have a handful of blue wings here in New Jersey and I saw my first green wings yesterday. Rails are here, but not in any numbers yet.
 
jode hillman said:
Jeff Reardon said:
Anyone seeing teal numbers start to build? I was driving home from a meeting one evening last week and had a small duck fly over the highway and into one of my early season wood duck and teal spots. It was not a wood duck, and I think the only possibilities are bluewing or green wing teal. (This was well inland in central Maine and definitely a puddle duck.) It was dusk and the bird was moving fast, so I couldn't get a positive ID, but my best guess would be bluewing. They usually start stacking up down here in early September and we only see a few remnant birds around with hordes of greenwings when our early season opens in late September.

Bout time to poke around and scout for sora rails. Season opens September 1, and they are usually here, though nuimbers are higher later in the month.
Click to expand...

I saw a handful of blue wings around Norway/ South Paris area last week. The end of the week as the cold front came in brought more ducks than just the dock mallards I have been seeing previously.

We have a handful of blue wings here in New Jersey and I saw my first green wings yesterday. Rails are here, but not in any numbers yet.
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I saw 6 in Tennessee over the weekend on a farm pond.
 
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