Mass Migration of Ducks didn't happen

[DUKFVR]

At least from Houston to young county.
Drove to my ranch today and saw maybe a dozen ducks on 2 ponds. Usually see several ponds with birds. I have a ranch down the road a few miles that is like a refuge. The guy allows no hunting and has a couple of big wheat fields and ponds. Normally covered in ducks by now. Not a duck on the water. Maybe 50 Canada's in fields and a handful of sandhills. One of my indicator ponds real close has had maybe a dozen ducks on it all season. Normally 40 or 50 everytime I go by. If the ducks came, they didn't use this flyway for damn sure.

[BlueGoose]

I'm pretty convinced duck hunting in Texas is damn near dead.

[Rebsbud]

Yep David, same all around here. What you said & what duckpond said on the other thread. No ducks at all on any of the ranch ponds around here & just a few woodies on the river. May have seen a dozen gadwall all year. Maybe.

[aTm8]

We lost all our ducks. 110 acre flat that’s fresh. Had several thousand pintails, and in the hundreds of teal/gadwall/wisgeon yesterday….maybe 40 came back to it today.

[El Pollo Loco]

We have a freshwater pond 150 yds from my house that last year you couldn’t see the 1.5-2 acres of water due to sheer number of birds on it…this was pretty much everyday, all day from November to March. Today I took a look and there were 2 ducks on it.

[toledo]

I drove north this morning and actually saw good birds coming up I-35 between the red and Norman. Pretty much every good looking pond had a small group. Oddly, my buddy drove up from La through the eastern part of the state and didn't see squat. Same conditions, no birds.

I'd have never thought the rivers would freeze up on the first night of a hard freeze but they did. Sleeping in and going to try it when the ice breaks up mid day tomorrow.

[Dog N Decoys]

Drove in from the deer lease (west of San Angelo) back to Central Texas today. Saw a fair amount of ducks on the way back but not the numbers we should have after a real cold front. They flat don’t exist in the numbers they tell us.

[2flyfish4]

Becarful hunting those OK rivers. In OK the landowner owns the riverbed. You can float the rivers but can't put an anchor down or step foot in the riverbed without trespassing.

[toledo]

Thanks. There's a little bit of public if you dig deep enough.

[Catdaddy]

Avian flu and excessive harvest above the northern border.

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[DUKFVR]

Had a pair of teal come in and got them. Seen 1 other duck high and headed north.
20 degrees here

[DUKFVR]

[DUKFVR]

Cheating this morning.
About 100 sandhills roosting in the pond overnite

[Spoonbilla]

Avian flu and excessive harvest above the northern border.

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Thats what happens when you alter the natural migration by feeding migratory birds. They refuse to leave and pay the ultimate price.

[DUKFVR]

Had 2 teal come in and saw 1 other bird high. Good morning, no candybar! 1972 Browning Auto 5. 32 in barrel, fixed full choke. Best auto ever made IMO.

[2flyfish4]

Speaking to a buddy in stuttgart, even with this cold snap the birds are still few and far between. Ya the top clubs are still hammering them. But everyone else is struggling big time.