First thoughts about a mid-February specklebelly goose hunt were that it would be quite exciting. As the day arrived, a look at the weather forecast moderated our excitement. Of course we had to give it a try. Our day and a half on Webb Tract was sunny, warm and mostly boring. However, we did bag [...]
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Hardly Fired Up Goose Hunt
Posted in California Delta, goose, Hunting, tagged late-season white-front goose hunt on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Waterfowl Sunrise
Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, goose, Hunting on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Matt Bloom and I watched geese rise in the east as shooting time arrived last weekend. Check out the video. One of the side benefits of waterfowl hunting is observing the sun rise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUOp0WJAAo&feature=plcp&context=C3ed6166UDOEgsToPDskLfl3sE28uheiCg_XpdmZ7L We did well.
Waterfowl Mid-Season Ups and Downs
Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, goose, tagged Waterfowl hunting report on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The waterfowl season has been up and down so far. Three trips to the grasslands produced two busts and one boom. Hunted Salt Slough on Wednesday the 30th of November when the winds nearly blew us off the area. We didn’t do well in the howling winds. By the time we found a pond with [...]
Nearly Perfect 2011 Waterfowl Opener
Posted in California Delta, ducks, Hunting, tagged Duck hunting on October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Haven’t said much about ducks lately. Made a couple preseason trips to Mayberry. And, on Friday, I walked the spot I intended to hunt on opening day. Because our club is now so different from the way it used to be, it’s important for me to scout out hunting spots or I might run into unwadable [...]
Mayberry, March 2011
Posted in bird watching, birds, California Delta, permanent marsh, photography, seasonal marsh, seasonal marsh, waterfowl, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management, tagged bird watching, Waterfowl photos on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
White front geese greeted me on the way to Mayberry. I recall seeing them at this same small pond during March of previous years – one of their last hangouts before they head north. (Click to enlarge photo.) Another common site on the way to Mayberry in late winter is goats grazing on the [...]
California Goose Hunting and Population Dynamics
Posted in California Delta, goose, Hunting, tagged Goose hunting, Goose Populations on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Hunted geese twice last week. First on Tuesday and last on Friday. The Tuesday hunt went well as two guests, Michael Flores and Chuck Alexander and myself shot almost a box of shells apiece. Specs and snows were vulnerable in the morning fog. The final tally was 15 geese between us, nine of them were [...]
Final Verdict on the Final Approach Duck Boat
Posted in California Delta, Duck Boat, Duck hunting, ducks, Gear, Hunting, tagged duck boat on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After nearly a full season of evaluation, I’ve got a pretty good handle on the Final Approach Duck Boat. I took my evaluation seriously and conducted all my duck hunting from the Final Approach to date. I even hunted from the boat all of the time – until this last weekend. In fact, I’d [...]
Geese Plentiful at Webb Tract
Posted in California Delta, goose, Hunting, Waterfowl Conservation, tagged California Delta goose hunting on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As is typical for mid-winter, geese have packed onto Webb Tract in the Delta. Between four hunters we brought down 17 over two days of hunting last week. As usual, the most productive method of take is pass shooting. That means finding a flyway between two grinds of geese and shooting fairly long shots as geese [...]
2010/11 at Mayberry a Sad Season
Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, ducks, Waterfowl Conservation, tagged Permanent Marsh, Subsidence prevention on December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Mayberry subsidence prevention and tule growing program is in full swing. A permanent marsh has now completely replaced the seasonal marsh we created over a period of years and we sure miss it. In past years we would sit in camp at dusk and watch thousands of waterfowl descend onto the property. Now a handful [...]
Hunting Ducks Below Sea Level
Posted in California Delta, ducks, goose, Hunting, tagged California Delta Islands on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From midnight ’til dawn, rain beat down on the roof of our trailer. When you’re sleeping below sea level, and you’ve experienced delta flooding, you just don’t sleep all that well. Late December and early January are the time of year when winter rains threaten delta islands. We’ve been hunting on Webb tract for well over [...]
