Must be going through withdraws.

Had a brief dream last night that I shot a mallard
with double bands.

Im really looking forward to this up coming season.


So.....

How many of you have shot a banded duck?

How many?

&

How many years have you been hunting ducks?

Post up some pics

32 Years of Waterfowl Hunting. 20 Banded Birds.

----------------------------------------------------------year---year
Band #-------bird------date Taken----where Banded------banded-hatch
1037-78239-Mallard-----Dec20,1980--Near Cawker City, KS---1978--1976
1357-63023-Mallard-----Nov18,1982--11 N Mont Nebo, SK----1982--1981
1037-68865-Mallard-----Nov7,1983---Near Milburn, OK---------1983--1982
1097-72401-Mallard-----Jan2,1984----Near Overton, NE-------1978--1977
797-36544--Mallard-----Nov24,1987--Near Houghton, SD-----1983--1982
658-24318--Canada G.--Jan19,1992--Near Pierre, SD----------1974--1973
2377-46131-Mallard ----Nov24,1994--7 Se Manville, AB--------1993--1993
2377-47887-Mallard-----Nov23,1996--11se Islay, AB-----------1993--1992
2387-40341-Mallard-----Nov15,1997--4 E Glenbush, SK--------1995--1995
2397-68189-Mallard-----Dec27,1997--11 S Vermilion, AB-------1995--1994
2377-91550-Mallard-----Jan6,1999----20 W Pease River, AB--1996--1995
0965-35882-Bw Teal----Sep11,1999---7 E Jamestown, ND----1999--1999
1066-61032-Redhead----Nov2,2000----7 E Mirror, AB----------1999--1998
1637-38376-Mallard-----Jan17,2001----7 W Alzada, MT--------1999--1998
1637-38377-Mallard-----Jan3,2002-----7 W Alzada, MT---------1999--1998
1527-94526-Mallard-----Jan12,2002----Near Smiley, SK--------2000--1999
935-25509--Woodduck--Jan15,2003----Manila, AR--------------1997--1997
1086-51478-Pintail------Nov9,2007-----Jansen,SK--------------2006--2005
1487-35420-Mallard-----Dec8,2007-----Butler,OK---------------1997--1996
1717-49912-Mallard-----Jan9,2010----20 W Pease River, AB--2006--2006

Very Nice Rob

Got 1 band, it was thanksgiving morning 2007, only bird I saw all morning. Made my day, could not believe my eyes.. It was my 5th season duck hunting..

Ten years or so of duck hunting. One banded woodie 5 or 6 years ago

I am 22 and shot my first band when I was 8. A blue wing teal. Shot my second one this past season it was a mallard. I would say I've been seriously hunting since I was about 14. But anyway I've killed 2 in 14 years of hunting.



My girlfriend has been hunting ducks pretty much since she met me 3 years ago and she has killed a banded mourning dove and a blue goose.




Her blue goose.

We've only collected 6 bands since moving to TX in 2004. We had three before that in NV when I got wifey person hooked on dawgs-n-ducks.

If I told you how many bands I had collected from 1956 until 1977 when I moved to Hawaii (where there's no waterfowl hunting) you wouldn't believe me. Probably even harder to believe is that I GAVE THEM ALL AWAY to my former duck hunting buddies when I moved. Bands really weren't a big deal back in those days as they have become in the last 20 years or so.

Very impressive rob.

I only have 1 band from a churchill manitoba snowgoose killed in chinal texas in 2002. The sucker was an old bird banded in 1985. I tracked down the bander, and he was working at a museum in new york city.
He exactly remebered that day he banded them birds as part of a high school project. Good times.

I'm pretty sure Rob has that info at the ready to cut and paste when asked. I'm jealous! Zero band on a ton of hunts. I'm thinking I average 1.5 hunts at least per week during the season for like 6 or 7 season in a row and then before that I'd go a handful of times a year. I have not even seen one shot in a group. I've seen a bunch of ducks and geese fall but never one with a band.

There are certain pockets where you are more likely to get bands...I'm clearly not in one of those areas.

Rob sets his dekes in a circle to increase his odds.

All I can tell Yall is if I figured the Price per Hour for each band it would be WAY up there.

-Double banded snow goose - private property, Orchard, TX Ft. Bend Co. (metal band on one leg, blue/white plastic band on the other)

-Snow goose - West Galveston Bay marsh

-Wood duck drake - one Dam B WMA, Jasper Co.

-Wood duck drake - Orange Co., Crawfish Farm

i got 3 banded great canadians in one day in OK during the special resident bird season, hunted 23 yrs and have never killed a banded duck here in tx.

Increase your amount of Mallards you harvest and you will increase your bands.

14 Mallards - (12 drakes 2 Hens)
1 Pintail drake
1 Redhead hen
1 widgeon Drake
1 Widgeon Hen
2 wood duck drakes
1 GWT
1 BWT

22 Total, Been chasing these birds for about 27 years now.

J.J.

Now as far as day dreaming...this is what I think about:

20 years and a lot of birds later 1 mallard band.

JJ that looks like a park picture from a pond out side of Chicago we used to watch birds at. It seemed like 1 out of 3 had a neck band at times.

Not really a big time duck hunter, but got lucky once with this double banded drake mallard. $100 reward band.

Picture is from Olathe, Kansas. Friend of mine sent it to me...

They did a neck banding survey to see how many geese leave city limits...Results was, "very" few left city limits.

J.J.

There's no banded ducks in Texas!

never shot a band been duck hunting for about 8 yrs.

I've only shot one.

And it was an icky diver...and a hen at that.





I've got some banded and double banded pigeons.

My girlfriends dad has a ranch in east texas with quite a few resident geese on it. My girlfriend thought I was crazy when I said I saw a bird with a neck collar fly over the house. We set off the goose feeder and she came in on a string with the rest of the birds... This picture was taken in August and we reported the numbers off the collar and she was from Cookeville, Tennessee. She left before resident season opened

Rob if I aint mistaken the band is upside down on that Mallard , never saw a bird banded that way http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i449/duckhuntr35/kirkspiks124.jpghttp://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i449/duckhuntr35/kirkspiks124.jpg