I live in southern indiana and was wondering what was going on up north like are the lakes freezing is it cold where are the ducks

How far north are looking at. Here in Manitoba the ducks and geese are heading south for sure because I have hardly any around my place and that’s just 60 miles north of Winnipeg. We had a good snow dumping just a little while ago but the lakes are not frozen yet and the snow is pretty well all gone for now...

We saw hundreds of geese and even a flock of Sandhills today while deer hunting........great time of the year.

Ron

Saw these guys today enjoying the sun.



It was in the city though. Seems some of the geese are a bit reluctant to leave.



Ron

im in southern indiana ...and the birds are here ..... but only a fraction of what we will be seein in a month or so ..... rb ya shoulda jumped out and looked for sum bands .... lol

Duck numbers for our trips to ND were way down for other years. I think the several consecutive years for very dry conditions in much of ND has taken it's toll for locally raise ducks there. We saw some flocks of northern mallards, grey ducks and a few pintails, teal, etc. Nothing like say 2-3 years ago though.

Many Canada and huge flocks of Snow and Blues were down early this year there, probably because of mid to late Oct. cold weather and snow that came through to the North. We had to scout around a lot this year and saw many dried big and small sloughs there. But we did very well field hunting Canada and Snow Geese.

Im on an island in the north part of lake huron for this up coming weeks deer hunt(cant believe one of the neighbours actually has wireless internet service,, have too ask who has it today).Anyways the beaver ponds are mushy on top, lakes are wide open,, LOTS of divers around and some geese!

Haven`t seen any birds here for two weeks. I do believe it is over.

Ron

I live in central maine and nothing is freezing...the puddle ducks are pretty scarce but im still waiting for the divers to come down.......cant wait

I live in NY, They kind of went by us a bit but theres still a lot around....puddle ducks, A LOT OF BLACK DUCK. Season opens in 2 days