Farmers took it on the chin with cotton last year and they planted an aweful lot of grain this year instead...
Milo and corn for days and the usual beans and rice. I think their planting makes quite a difference in how many birds we hold at least in the beginning.
In that respect it sho looks good DIS year.
All those snows we had last year will be back and there will be plenty to eat too.
I think I might try that some this year.
Maybe get Hammer to teach me sumthing about it. Them snows was all OVER the place around here last year, they really add to the "experience" even if you just duck hunting. All the noise, huge flocks flying around, I enjoyed them being around.
Now I'd like to thank them by pickin those pesky speckle bellies out of the crowd!
Hammer says speckels eat REAL good, I aint never ate one. Gumbo maybe? EVERYTHING is good in GUMBO! (even coots)
With all THIS grain on the surface, I just gotta feeling the snows are gonna show up in force and dang if they here, they a problem to some habitats BECAUSE of numbers, then hunting them is helping with conservation!
Hey thats my kinda equation!
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Specks are great eating. Snows taste sort of like old school bus seats, but not quite as tender.
I agree I have never seen snows like there were last year in the Marks/Crenshaw and Anguilla areas.
I agree I have never seen snows like there were last year in the Marks/Crenshaw and Anguilla areas.
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I aint sure why but in between Sunflower and just south of belzoni for some reason they really like that strip of dirt and I saw them last year several times in cotton fields, know good and well they sleepin not feeding. I saw so many snows around Moorehead that it looked like South Texas.
I mean they were really here STRONG.
On another note, I been seeing a lot of doves this year too but I just don't know enough about them to say that there are MORE doves, but it sure looks that way in SOME places.
But with all this corn that they are about to start harvesting in a week, them birds gonna be spread out all OVER the place.
Food is all OVER the place, I just dont think they will bunch up on a dove field like they would but I may be wrong. Why would they? That much corn on the ground, that much milo, I dont see it.
Check this cotton field out just outside of Inverness. this dang digital dont do pics justice, this just about took my breath away.
There were geese from horizon to horizon, look down at the ground level in the back, they were none stop piling into this place by the umpteen thousands, coming from every direction, it was something to see. Then you go down the road three miles and there's another field doing the same thing.
This aint them little 3,000 count stops you see them doing, this is something else.
there had to be 30,000 birds trying to get into this field and it was a dang cotton field. You want to talk about NOISY.....
WOW......
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I mean they were really here STRONG.
On another note, I been seeing a lot of doves this year too but I just don't know enough about them to say that there are MORE doves, but it sure looks that way in SOME places.
But with all this corn that they are about to start harvesting in a week, them birds gonna be spread out all OVER the place.
Food is all OVER the place, I just dont think they will bunch up on a dove field like they would but I may be wrong. Why would they? That much corn on the ground, that much milo, I dont see it.
Check this cotton field out just outside of Inverness. this dang digital dont do pics justice, this just about took my breath away.
There were geese from horizon to horizon, look down at the ground level in the back, they were none stop piling into this place by the umpteen thousands, coming from every direction, it was something to see. Then you go down the road three miles and there's another field doing the same thing.
This aint them little 3,000 count stops you see them doing, this is something else.
there had to be 30,000 birds trying to get into this field and it was a dang cotton field. You want to talk about NOISY.....
WOW......
[ July 29, 2002: Message edited by: Old Salty ]
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Last year was the first time I ever really paid any attention to these geese. this is a different game than duckin.
I think you gott find them in the daytime, then show up before they get there the next morning. they bunch up at dusk then they split in the morning again. You gotta ge in one of them fields they been using in the daytime but to get these numbers attention you cant use no 100 rags. You have to do some WORK to put decoys out.
We have a LOT of local Canadians right in this area too. I wanna tell you that them birds can stand on wet delta dirt, 40 yards off the road, and you cant see them. I think Canadas have the best cammo of all the waterfowl.
They are smart too, hard to kill them but they eat catfish and they dont taste good.
I will you could tell the difference between them and wild birds.
I think you gott find them in the daytime, then show up before they get there the next morning. they bunch up at dusk then they split in the morning again. You gotta ge in one of them fields they been using in the daytime but to get these numbers attention you cant use no 100 rags. You have to do some WORK to put decoys out.
We have a LOT of local Canadians right in this area too. I wanna tell you that them birds can stand on wet delta dirt, 40 yards off the road, and you cant see them. I think Canadas have the best cammo of all the waterfowl.
They are smart too, hard to kill them but they eat catfish and they dont taste good.
I will you could tell the difference between them and wild birds.
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Old Salty, a couple years ago I got the privelage to cruise a tract of timber in Lodge Corner, Ar just below Stuggart and saw a feild that was like that, covered in snows. As far as you could see in all directions there were snows coming into the rice field. I haven't got a clue of nearly how many birds it was but it was one of the most amazing sites I ever saw.
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Yeah.....that's about where I figured all those snows that flew over 'Wilson Point' for a solid week, were headed......somewhere alround Belzoni. 'Mallardchaser', did ya'll see that.......they came from somewhere around the lower Boeuf and crossed the river between Mayersville and Glen Allen....figured they musta been hittin' around Isola somewhere.
'Wingman', what's the big 'draw' over there? (....besides Japanese millet) [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Even the geese at 'Little Missouri' flew that way after they cleaned'em out over at Mer Rouge.
Awesome sight.....wave after wave of birds you can't do a thing with, but gawk at. Heck, there weren't any ducks to look at [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]......'gave us something to look at besides cormorants. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
'Wingman', what's the big 'draw' over there? (....besides Japanese millet) [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Even the geese at 'Little Missouri' flew that way after they cleaned'em out over at Mer Rouge.
Awesome sight.....wave after wave of birds you can't do a thing with, but gawk at. Heck, there weren't any ducks to look at [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]......'gave us something to look at besides cormorants. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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Grain?.....'went to Lake Providence this weekend......from Greenwood to the Sunflower Co. line on Hwy 82, was nuttin' but RICE!!.....'know those fields will be fulla snows, this year. 'Wish I knew somebody down 136 or 386.
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SWEET TATERS, DUDE! They fight amongst themselves over poot roots. Several farmers here grow 'em...you outta see the carnage after the sky cows leave a tater field!
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Old Salty - that wad of geese looks mighty familiar. I don't know how many birds we had around us last year but I can guarantee that it's 30K plus for damn near 2 solid weeks at the peak - maybe more. They weren't spooked by gun pressure either. I heard creep shooters hit them from the ditches off of hwy 7 about 10 times over a weekend and they just kept coming back. I'll shoot em on the pass from the pit but I can't lay in the friggin gumbo anymore. If you figure out the snow formula - post it by all means.
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You ever hidden in standing corn and shot specks as they start to flip-flop in your face about 10 feet above the ground? They'll pass clean by you before they hit the water..after they been shot!!! And they come to the call really nicely, especially in the fog.
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