The common duck

I got to wondering about how the ducks spread across the state during the migration and wanted to get everyone to list what county they hunt in and what duck they saw most this season. For me, it was wood ducks and bw teal in Waller county, and hands down wood ducks in Cass county.

Cooke County, Gadwall

Somewhere around clay, archer or Wichita. Probably a break even between widgeon, gw and mallard. Last year was greys and widgeon.

My group killed over 50% ringneck this year in DFW area. Hunting tanks mostly.

Coot.......

Scaup. Scaup, Scaup,and more Scaup. Rains County

mallards, pottsboro area.

Along SE Tx coast. Killed mostly bluewings ,then gadwalls.

Gadwalls and ring bills in Hamilton county

Usually it’s widgeon, gadwall, Mallard, ring necks pretty much in that order.

This year
Gadwall, gadwall, gadwall,gadwall, mallard

Gadwall and teal. Grayson county.

Teal then gadwall. Colorado county.

I saw a mix of everything between West central Tx and Sulphur Springs and up into Ok. The most definitive difference from last year was I saw way fewer gadwall this year.

Gadwall and Mallards this year for us in Clay County.

Shot more widgeon this year than any other bird and saw more than I’ve ever seen. Usually it’s gadwall and ringnecks. Didn’t see many gadwalls at all and didn’t see nearly the amount of ringnecks I usually do.

Wise county.

I ran across the Texas Waterfowl Strategic Plan while looking for where the texas duck stamp fund goes. At the end of this document are graphs by year, species, and region of Texas for duck population surveys done from 1997 to 2011.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1691_07_11.pdf#page=41

Fannin Co. Nearly all GWT - 10X all others. Ringnecks a distant 2nd, a handful of gadwall, and a couple mallards. One pintail, a few snows and a few Canadas.

Only place I hunted in Texas this year was Coleman County. Ringnecks, Ringnecks, Widgeons and a handful of Gadwalls

Montague is usually gads, mallards, teal and pintails. This year a few teal and pintails but saw a lot of ringnecks. Oh and the always loved cormorant!

We shot a bunch of bluebills this year. i can't remember shooting more than one or two in a season. On 2 hunts we killed 12, one in Montgomery County we killed 5, and another in Matagorda County we killed 7.

Corpus Christi

Red Head, Red Head and some pin tails