One of my hunting buddies sent me this pic this morning while I was in the deer stand. I have no clue what it is. Just getting into duck hunting the last few years so still have trouble with it.

Hooded Merganser hen

I looked at that on my identification chart, I guess I looked right over the hen

Yep

Yep, tasty.

A little salt and slap her on the grill. Just make sure you have a dog that can catch food in the air when you spit it across the room.

Lol

Great table fare for people you dislike.

Can't be much different than a spoonie

Bullsch.

You are very lucky. Best duck to eat sashimi style. Just cut very thin layers with a rasorblade, sprinkle with some black truffle oil and be ready for an amazing merganser carpaccio.

Nasty duck LOL

I think a spoonie is really like a big blue wing. You just have to highlight something other than the unadulterated spoonie flavor... Like bacon, cream cheese and jalapeno. Which is funny because if you just bacon wrap jalapeno and cream cheese it's actually better than it is with the spoonie. Merganser, on the other hand, is what you eat when you run out of possum.

Those are stinkiest birds ever. I couldn't imagine eating one.

Cuz its not actually a duck...

And as long as im not near a sewage plant ill cook spoonys right along with gaddys and mallards and no one will ever know

Yeah it is. It just has its own limit for some silly reason. Maybe they just want more of them killed, I dunno.

That sir is a north american daffy

Fry it like fish...

it did stink pretty bad... he left it on the hood of my truck. i was on the way back from the deer lease, pulled up to my beautiful white dodge covered in my mud and a stinkin duck layin on my hood. that will be the last time i let someone borrow my truck while im out of town

He really left your truck like that wow that an arse kicking offense

The unfortunate part is he is my boss

It does not matter, that is a bullchoot thing to do to someone.

Not a duck.