kris Schaumburg wrote:Ramsey,
this is on my very short list, and the wife said she'll go to. looks like the predominant bird is greenwings? How were the numbers of treeducks (pachugas? don't they call them something like that) and cinnamons. You can PM me if you want. 20 ducks a day, that has to be close to the south american numbers huh?
It depends on where you are hunting down there as to what your predominant duck is. Since Greenwings get into bigger flocks, they are often the main bird bagged as there are shooters and there are hunters. Cinnamons travel in smaller bunches and unless you target them, you'll have more of other things. Cinnamons seemed to be in good numbers down there this year as did some of the better marked Blue-wings in some time. Some water holds mostly divers and some have a lot of Whistling Ducks mixed with Teal. We hunt brackish water, fresh water and saltwater esturaries at times down there and sometimes see many species and sometimes don't depending on where we are. I've killed as many as 12 species in one shoot in the past. The Black-Bellied Whistling Duck is rather common, but Fulvous are sometimes vagrants and sometimes accessable. My oldest son and I shot 15 Fulvous in one morning several years ago. so you never know. Like anywhere else, things vary from year to year as water conditions change. When a hunter is looking for one particular bird the hunt-master ususally knows where to find it.
I'm having some computer problems and will have to get that straightened out before I can post up some pictures.
