The sixth most important sound in our series of important duck calls to learn, is the lonesome hen. Let’s go back to our happy place. Remember the flooded corn field that is full of ducks. We are hidden in the field and listening to the sounds. We can hear a mallard drake grunt, a feeding call from a mallard hen, teal beeps, pintails whistling, and one mallard hen in the corner of the field by herself making the lonesome hen sound. What exactly is the lonesome hen? It is very simple call that consist of either long drawn out quacks and/or long drawn out quacks greeting/pleading call to finish.
How to make the lonesome hen sound: I want you make a series of three quacks. In this call, I want you to put more space in between the quacks and make the quacks longer. On a regular series of quacks there is usually about .75 to 1 second in between quacks. This series of quacks I want you to allow about 1.5 to 2 seconds in between quacks. Got that? Ok! To finish the call sound, I want you to add a greeting/pleading sound to it. I like the finish with the greeting/pleading call. The greeting/pleading sound should start as soon as you finish the last quack. There shouldn’t be any dead air after the last quack. The finish on the lonesome hen has the same number of sound burst as a greeting call. I want you to make it sound sad and and almost like she is pleading with ducks to come land near her. She needs friends because maybe she just lost her drake earlier that morning. Here is a great example of the lonesome hen. I hope this sound will help bring more ducks into your spread.
