Can you tell the difference between a dove and a teal?

Well, can ya?

One flies real fast

Dove vs teal is easy.

It's teal vs wood duck that makes me nervous this time of year.

Saw a flock of teal while I was dove hunting on Monday afternoon. Wood duck drake sitting in 3rd.

Doh!

Sure can, my suggestion is to use a dove whistle to make the doves flare, teal will keep on flying.

The teal will be the ones that land on the water.

Ground checking works best in my opinion.

I bet some scissor tails paid the ultimate price over the last week plus.

pintail dove

Opening morning I drove past a guy in the field with two wounded larks flopping around by his moho

Saturday evening had about a dozen sparrows come flying over. 5 seconds later 15 shots went off fairly close to us. Decided to pack it up then...and this wasn't on public land.

Yes but I have seen teal that can't tell the difference between a mojo dove or a mojo duck

Yes I did shot a dragon fly.... Those things fool me all the time

that's pretty good

boredom drove me to shoot a grasshopper weekend before last

doves were thin in the area at best

good news is i hit the grasshopper

So you got an early start and they were still thin?

Eurasian vs gadwall hen is a tough one.

I can tell the difference between a scissor tail and a dove, its just that sometimes I dont care

Dont gotta worry bout that, aint any teal around to mistake for dove!

I'll raise your teal vs woodduck with a teal vs spoonie.

At least wood ducks make a very distinctive sound vs any other duck. So I've never actually had that problem with wood ducks. But I guess if they were in a group together somehow I could see that being an issue. I've just never seen it at the places I hunt.

good catch

my weekend started on monday

Always works better with the bird in hand.............

Teal are tricky vs. the wood ducks this time of year. Wood ducks tend to fly really early and it makes them tough to identify quickly in the dawn light. If you can see them coming you can usually be alright but teal and woodies all ways seem to show up out of no where.

Yep,

Teal taste better than dove.

Never had a problem telling them apart. I can see how the teal vs wood duck would be difficult. According to east texas turkey or whatever bigdaddy changed his name its hard to tell a pintail from anything else. Fully plumed spoonie bit the dust one moringing early in the poor light because he swore it was a pintail. Made the rest of us laugh.