YaHoo!!!!!,, Got my first banded bird today and it was a goose too boot!!!!

Congrats!! The first one is always the best one. It takes the pressure off!

Congrats! Took me 35 yrs of waterfowling before I got my first band.

Ron

it took my dad 20 years to get his first, me 4 years and i dropped a 11 year-old mallard

congrats. I have gotten 2 bands in 9 years of ducking MY first band was on the first bird i killed. A black duck she was 4 years old and is now on my wall.

hey congrats. i dont even know really the details of a banded duck. buuuuuuut i know they are a big deal. gj.

thanks everyone I have been duck and goose hunting for 12 yrs. I was starting to think it would never happen ...I checked out the band # on my state wildlife web site and it had a link to the band info. web site, I found out my bird was a large canada goose,banded in Michigan, on 6-22-2002. they are going to send me a info sheet with more details in the mail,,,I can't wait,,,and I can't wait to get back out there and get another one

Congratulations! I remember the feeling of shootingmy first band. I never thought I'd shoot a band. Now every time I walk up to a goose I'm visually searching it's legs as soon as I'm like 10 feet away! haha

Congrats on the Rolex

Congrats. I still remember my first band it was a $100 reward band on a mallard hen. Since then i have shot a banded blue wing that was banded by the same guy who banded the first one.