Originally Posted by Alsatian

Something just made me remember an amusing experience I had this year duck hunting. While waiting for shooting light I saw two green winged teal land off to my left about 30 yards. I kept looking ahead but watched the teal sort of out of the corner of my eye. Then I noticed a green winged teal much closer, not more than 5 yards away, sitting very still right next to the edge of the brush! I froze solid. I checked my watch, but it seemed there was another 5 minutes to go for legal shooting. Finally, I decided the time had come and I strode out into the marsh, spashing through the water, ready to lift my gun as the teal took off the water . . . but the bird didn't get up!!! Then I saw that it was a teal decoy that had drifted away from the previous evenings hunt! Joke was on me. Another funny thing was that during the remainder of that mornings hunt I kept looking at that decoy because I felt for sure I had seen it moving.