Coots
 

Has anyone seen an increase or decrease in the Coot population in your area? It has been 3 years since I have seen one and we honestly had them by the thousands around here.

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ive only hunted a # of yrs on acount of my age but i ve seen em just not many it mmight be were i live but they are funny to watch swimming

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We have thousands of them little buggers here and they don't do anything but sit around.

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Dont see too many, usually a few a year and thats it....

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We use to have a bunch as I mentioned and other ducks like widgeon liked hanging around them to scarf up some of the grass that they pulled up.

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We had them by the thousands too but you don't see nearly as many these days.

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Still here in Minnesota in good numbers.

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I've seen more and more here is OR every year, ive seen hundreds in the local golf course pond this summer. I was just fishin the other day in a little cattle pond and counted 12 swimmin around.

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Where do you live MarshMonster??

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Here in WI we still have thousands, but they're on the decline....for better or worse

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in arizona those things get pretty annoying the pond by our house is packed with them as well as the surrounding lakes, there is certainly no shortage.

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I like having them around they give the marsh a more lively appearance and some ducks benefit from them, so I hate to see them not showing up and from what you guys are saying maybe ours have moved to the mid west. I don't know?? Thanks for your responses

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Oops forgot I already posted something[&:]

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we see to many of them around here. i hate the things there good for nothin ugly ducks (if you wanna call em ducks) but when the "real" ducks stop flyin they can be fun to shoot. but it wouldnt hurt me if i never saw em agian.