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Where are the birds??? #1124229 12/23/09 04:39 PM
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I live and work on the edge of the Katy Prairie and I have never seen as few geese and ducks as this year? I don't hunt but just wondering what others that may hunt in this area are experiencing. Usually by this time of the year the fields are full of geese and the ducks are stacked up on every pot hole...


Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: matt_aggie04] #1124243 12/23/09 04:45 PM
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Bad goose hatch this year. The ducks are here in record numbers. The Katy Prairie is dying a slow death. It has some birds but not like the 80s.


Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: wal1809] #1124261 12/23/09 04:53 PM
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Yeah I hear ya on the slow death...I mis-spoke in my previous post, I do hunt, avidly, but not in that area. These fiels south of Waller all the way to Katy seem to have no birds at all and when I was a kid in the late 80's early 90's the fields around here were white. Bad enough watching all this urban sprawl but now we are really seeing what happens when destroy an area that is crucial to birds in the winter.... they change their migratory route! I'll get off my soapbox now haha


Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: matt_aggie04] #1124279 12/23/09 05:02 PM
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yep same story here.. It's been hit or miss for me on the katy prairie this year (duck hunting). Actually saw A LOT of geese this morning out by the airport.


Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: DUAggie] #1124339 12/23/09 05:37 PM
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We used to hunt there when it was awesome, but now there are only about 10% of the rice farmers that were there in the 90's and we got off our lease about 5 years ago.


Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: Kenter] #1124824 12/23/09 09:29 PM
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They have been spotty all over the state, I hope that January brings them hardcore.



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Re: Where are the birds??? [Re: duckboy007] #1124883 12/23/09 09:59 PM
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Only had 4 up on our place today...hope this front brings em through. and not past us...



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