Remember when you looked forward to 30 degrees, cold north wind, snowing just north of you? Well these days it seems all the talk in the blind. Come on, come on, bees! Why do I say come on bees? I haven’t quite figured that one out. I just know when we starting seeing bees in the duck blind, get ready, you are about to shoot your weapon! I look forward to a warm day with a south wind more than I do a cold front. I know this to be true because we take careful notes as to how many we harvest per day, wind direction, and temperature.
Why was this not the case 10 years ago and prior? Maybe because we didn’t have as many extremes weather patterns throughout the season? If I remember correctly it steadily continued to cool off and then froze up and maybe warmed up to 40. It never snowed then 3 days later 60 degrees and rain like this past season. I am not trying to talk about global warming or cooling or whatever you want to believe. I am just focusing on how duck movements have changed. We are hunting a different duck these days. A duck that can move from Canada, Montana, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, then back up to Tennessee. They “Reverse Migrate” it has been recorded by fish and wildlife with gps devices on ducks.
What makes the “Reverse Migrating” duck different than other ducks. Well for one it has travelled the entire migration path. It has seen hundreds of miles more set ups then ducks that didn’t reverse migrate. How can we continue to have success in the field? Come hunt with me and I will show you!