are Tree Duck or Whistler ducks kinda rare ?

It depends on where you are in texas. Some places they are rare, other places they are everywhere. I have never seen any hunting. They are suppose to be good eating.

Them son of a guns are allover South Texas, my buddys have them under their feeders eating corn all the time.

This is a spot i will have access to next season.. the tree ducks are everywhere

We have them fly over our neighborhood every evening. We even had them and their young running around the neighborhood and in the pool. Never seem them while hunting though.

ya they would land under my feeder all the time i shot tons ofemm last year i live in abilene

if my aim with my 4 iron was as good as it is with my shotgun I would kill a limit every time i played golf. They are everywhere in houston on a handful of courses.

they fly at our leases near san antonio, I never shoot at them... they are dumb and slow...

But they are very good to eat.

You shot tons of waterfowl under your feeder?

lol

is there something wrong with hunting ducks at ur deerfeeder???

Not as long as you don't get caught.

I'm sure it was just a run-on sentence.

The kids will play while the gamewarden is away.

Well, there's no question about that!

GRR80 where did you take this picture almost looks like my back yard

i dont think he meant to type a run on sentence he is just not used to using punctuation on the forum he lives in abilene and has a bunch of whistlers in his area sounds like a good problem to have maybe he can get lucky and kill a few the season starts in november

Never seen one in Abilene in 20 years.....just sayin.

Abilene sure seems far west and north of the normal range for both texas tree ducks. Sure your not talking about wood ducks?
Or...you know both are sold by hatcherys. Someone in the area could have bought some for their pond or lake and inadvertently started a colony of them in your area.

We saw thousands at the Katy Prairie during teal season.

I don't think there are many, if any, wood ducks or whistlers in Abilene.

I read on here where some fellas got a few whistlers in Centex, that was the first time I'd heard of anyone shooting someplace other than near the coast or Mexico.

We had some nest on our lease in southeast AR, and I just saw a pair last week at Lake Fork, but once winter rolls around, they have all headed south!

I only see them in April and May, and only at one place, on our football and baseball fields.

Seen them in Wills Point, but that was after the season was over. Early spring.