Mallards

[msmith]

A mallard couple have decided to call my little farm pond home. I think the drake knows the camera is there so he shows off from time to time.

[FinsnFur]

Thats pretty cool.
My first question was why do you have trail cam on the pond?
Ok, to check the mallard traffic. I like it.
How do you have the camera out there? Is it setting on something floating?
These are gonna be some fun shots

[nastygunz]

Duck decoy cam 

[remrogers]

Mallards are good looking birds. For flash, you can't beat a wood duck drake, but foe elegance, a pintail drake take first prize. In MHO.

[nastygunz]

Them wood ducks are bout impossible to hit, for me anyways

[pitw]

Good looking beeves.

[msmith]

Thats pretty cool.
My first question was why do you have trail cam on the pond?
Ok, to check the mallard traffic. I like it.
How do you have the camera out there? Is it setting on something floating?
These are gonna be some fun shots

I live right between flyways. WV is one of the most non waterfowl hunting states there is, yet there is a niche group that hunts them. With that, I find it pretty cool when mergansers or ducks check out my little pond. Last year I had a couple of mallards decide to check it out so I ate them  . This year was a bad year everywhere for duck hunting so I decided to make a small duck paradise. I started by tossing out a few decoys and scattering corn in the shallow water and along the edge. I took an old broken camera tripod that I had and put my game cam on it. I set the tripod in the water where the cam was about 18 inches off the water. I'm going to disc up an area above the pond and plant some millet this year and if the pond drops in hot weather, I may try to plant some rice in the mud. Anyway, it's a neat little project/experiment that I'm trying out. With a little luck we'll get a small local population of mallards to hunt a couple times a year. My cell subscription ran out so I'm done with pics for the year.

Merganser;

[FinsnFur]

That is interesting and sounds fun as heck
Were definitely going to need some more pics as this progresses though.
What do you mean "cell subscription". I thought those were a thing of the past. It's February, how can you be done for the year already? You KNOW were not letting you off that easy, right?

[msmith]

That is interesting and sounds fun as heck
Were definitely going to need some more pics as this progresses though.
What do you mean "cell subscription". I thought those were a thing of the past. It's February, how can you be done for the year already? You KNOW were not letting you off that easy, right?

Cell cam subscription. Maybe I'll renew for another month

[FinsnFur]

Ahhhhhh, I gotcha now. I forgot about those