Pretty disrespectful to a beautifully plumed bird. Anti hunters would loooooooove to use this picture as fodder to further their agenda, and honestly who could blame them. Even as a sportsman, who gets the joke, I don't think its funny. If you can't identify on the wing well enough to not harvest the birds you won't eat, then you have no business putting your gun to your shoulder. Ringers, bluebills and other "less desireable" tablefare go to the sausage pile where, after adding the right amount of pork fat, spices, and smoke, people rave about them.

not much benefit when it taste like a sardines cooch

and you?

John, you goin to safari club?

I'm not going to make it up there. My girlfriend will be there all day Thursday and Friday trying for an africa hunting website she works for selling ad space. Hunting season is too short for me to waste a weekend up there in Dallas. And as far as the mount goes, I would never have it in my house because I think it is a little ridiculous as well. Just put it on here mainly to get a rise out of everyone!

Thats weird because they eat pretty much the same things all other dabblers eat minus cereal grains... Maybe you're confusing them with a merganser?

From ducks.org:

Food habits: Northern shovelers feed by dabbling and sifting in shallow water. Seeds of sedges, bulrushes, saw grass, smartweeds, pondweeds, algae and duckweeds, as well as aquatic insects, mollusks and crustaceans, are consumed by filtering water which is taken in at the bill tip and jetted out at the base.

not much benefit when it taste like a sardines cooch

It's funny at first glance but I wouldn't put it in my house. To each his own. I don't care for "dead mounts" either but some guys think they are cool. I haven't seen any deer mounts where the deer is hanging from a grambrel or on a tailgate with it's tongue hanging out. I guess if it's all about remembering the hunt.....

This entire post proves that some folks have 0 sense of humor.

Well done sir, I like it.

This entire post proves that some folks have 0 sense of humor.

Well done sir, I like it.

Question for all you serious folks.

If that mount represents disrespect for the resource. Could that not be said about all waterfowl mounts? You wasted the game, you did not eat the animal which died at your hands.

Just saying.

Question for all you serious folks.

If that mount represents disrespect for the resource. Could that not be said about all waterfowl mounts? You wasted the game, you did not eat the animal which died at your hands.

Just saying.