2015-2016 Bird Hunting Season

I am hoping to get on a long tail hunt after Christmas. Looks like you were on the "X"

 

Looks like an awesome hunt Dan. Is that a sea duck hunt or a great lakes hunt?

 

Great pics Spurhunter!
Got a "golden BB" pair of woodies on Thanksgiving and ate the third of my limit for dinner. Then took my buddy Kyle up to Georgia to get his first deer. Had deer all over him all weekend.

 

Lake Michigan

 

Nice oldsquaws! How do they taste.

 

Ha!

they get ground up into sausage with the rest of the ducks

even a merganser or two make it into the pot.

 

Wow bucksnort, that is a nice bunch of long-tailed ducks and such nice goldeneyes, beautiful.
I went out with the dogs today, bad weather, raining, a little bit foggy but we have had success, got a pair of mute swans, a cormorant and at least by the way back to the car, an European jay



here they are



cormorant and jay



the mutes



and so they end in the kitchen



Ullys´retrieve of the cormorant, now after a long time, we left the puppies at the age of five weeks at home and went out hunting for the first time - and it works -



my wife has been out with us and got the present

 

That woodie wrapped in bacon must have been a treat.
Such a fine eating duck.

Nice swans ... such beautiful birds.

 

Have tried them several different ways but found that I like the woodies breast fillets and thighs/legs fried the best. Had a "redneck surf and turf", so I called it, yesterday for Sunday lunch. Fried wood duck and venison cube steak. Green beans, butter beans and scalloped tomatoes. Everything came off the farm. Very satisfying meal in more ways than one.

Beautiful birds there Rai red. What do you do with the cormorant? They are a protected species here and considered a nuisance.

 

Man them squaw are making me miss long island.I just moved to north carolina into the backwoods and there sure ain't no oldsquaw here.matter of fact I haven't seen one duck here.thanks for sharing

 

Spurhunter, as I wrote before, cormorants are also protected in Germany but we get a special hunting license for them because of some unique fish species here in the Danube-River system and they are also wintering here in such great numbers, that they fly from pond to pond and eat and often kill bigger fish so massive, that the fishermen come in big trouble when they are here.
Normally I breast them and take the legs and cook them for my dogs and the rest we bring out for the foxes, where we hunt them by coming to this places.

 

Was no intention of implying any wrong doing. From what I understand they aren't the nicest smelling bird. Saw the swan meat and said surely he isn't gonna eat the cormorant too! There has been a special limited season here in SC the last two years on a couple lakes for same reasons stated. Would love to remove a few myself! Thanks for the reply.

 

No problem, I have some friends in Scandinavia and also in the north of Germany and there they eat the breasts of the young ones and also gulls. I have been told, that they put them into butter milk for three to four days and they should loose their smell then but at the moment also my dogs don´t want to eat them, so they go out completly for the raptors.
Some people also told me, that coots are very tasty but when I skin them, they smell like old mud and that is nothing for me to eat.
I have tried the breasts of a grey heron a few years ago because I was told, that they would taste fantastic and they called them heron steaks but I can tell you, I didn´t like that fishy smell and the cormorants are much more intensive.

 

a couple more long tails

 

Went pheasant hunting for the first time last week. I think I'm hooked!! 8) 8) Got my limit two days in a row. Seven years since I fired my Shotgun at a bird.

 

again very nice long-tails bucksnort and
Nate, those are some beautiful roosters

 

Man ol Man those are some beautiful long tails. Thats a bucket list hunt. Congrats on such an awesome hunt.

 

My buddy has all the equipment for the hunts. If you OR ANYONE ELSE is interested, he would like to do a swap-a-hunt.
He is interested in a flooded timber hunt OR make an offer.
If you have something to trade with him, PM me and I will get you his email addy. Maybe it will work out for you. ?

Dan

 

Well- 20+ inches of rain in 45 days has made it tough. Didn't even bother getting out of bed the last three days of the first split. Saturday went out to jump shoot a few fat wigeons to cooks gumbo.

Got three fatties and headed back. One more for the collection.












Nothing makes oil for a roux like duck fat

 

Mmmm. Would to come over for supper!!! Super nice trophy bird also!