Getting ready for Duck Season

Starts this coming weekend, time to put the camera down and get the shotgun out. Here’s a few pics to get the season started and the blood flowing.

Beautiful pics.

Man that is a beautiful spoonie. I'm assuming those pics are from last season, otherwise your birds have some amazing plumage for this early in the season! Great pics as always

Most of these pics are from this spring and summer when birds were in breeding plumage. Now everything is fairly drab.

Beautiful pictures Tray. Good luck this weekend.

great pic, thanks for sharing

Awesome pictures!

Guess I’m gonna have to poach to get me a mountable Bluewing, lol.

Hey tray
Do you set up a spread in the off season and call them in for pictures ?

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Yes a lot of time I will try to set up a decoy spread, it’s a little harder then hunting because you need to have the sun behind you for the best pictures of birds coming in but a lot of the time the wind will blow out of a direction that doesn’t for allow for that.

That's pretty cool , I have always wanted to do that just to practice my calling and setting up a good spread to see what works the best. Pictures would be cool too !

Lol. No kidding. I've never shot a drake bwt that I have considered good enough for a mount

I think you would have to travel to Mexico for best chance of shooting a full plumage Blue-wing.

Where’s Moosie....I figured he’d be all Ovah this Duck Porn ....!

Hey Tray
Do you find there's much a difference between setting up a decoy spread in hunting season vs the spring ? Let's say for mallards?

I don’t do anything special, we have a large number of waterfowl come thru on migration so I just find where they want to be and set up. Big thing is when your not banging away at them once a few birds start landing your decoy spread keeps getting bigger which draws more birds. A good hide is even more critical with a camera then shotgun.

Thanks Brian.

Those are amazing pics. Are you a professional photographer?

No, it’s just a hobby.

Turn pro.

Thanks for the encouragement, it may be something I pursue when I retire, unfortunately the market is saturated with many very good photographers with very high end equipment.

With the digital age it became very easy for anyone to pick up a camera and with a little time invested be able to take high quality pics. The real money anymore is in doing training seminars to teach people how to photograph.

Nice pictures Good luck I really enjoy spending time hunting ducks