Waterfowl Update
Posted by Brady on 10 Jan 2008 at 12:39 am | Tagged as: Waterfowl
It’s the middle of January and the birds that have been here for the last month have been hunted hard and know where to go and not to go by now.
The saving grace is the weather has warmed up for the last 10 days and the forecast for the next week is warm and cloudy. This is going to help tremendously as the snow melts off the fields exposing the once snow-covered corn fields, allowing more birds to take advantage of different locations.
There has been a massive influx of birds showing up in the “Golden Triangle” as well as the Eastern Plains. The best report I’ve heard in a month is that there are 3,000+ mallards using one of our fields out east. Can’t tell you where but would be obliged to take you there!
This warming trend has brought on an onslaught of new birds migrating out of Montana and Wyoming where they’d been rafted up for the last 3-4 weeks. My gut feeling is that as long as the weather continues to stay warm and stabilize that these birds will not feel the need to move any farther south. You might want to book while the hunting is good and the numbers are growing daily before mother nature throws us another curve ball of weather and sends them south again.
We all remember what happened on December 10th! Colorado lost over 50% of its waterfowl population in one night and what was left scattered all over the state making this one of the toughest hunting seasons I can recall.
Stay safe, have fun and we’ll see you in the field,
Brady
