Duck Calling

[bayport]

Based on some calling I heard at Holiday Park this morning I'd like to post this link to Bird Wed.

If you can identify those ducks flying near by that you want to call (and you should be able to do that) take a listen to the Ringneck VS the Mallard.

Then maybe you can use the right call.


http://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=77

P.S. I do NOT claim to be an expert caller!

[sherrell]

very,very irritating aint it.saturday up on a north florida lake you knew some where in the atlantic flyway there was at least one duck and this guy could see it.it's bad enough using the wrong call but to call so crappy on a mallard call should be illegal.i watched these guys flare flock after flock of ringnecks.if you are out there some where and read this remember ringers purr they do not and i stress do not quack.one other favor with the calling,please go over to arkansas' i believe the greenhead mallard might change flyways and come on over to florida if he hears ya!!!

[BlindHog]

I have always wondered if people think that since ringers do encounter mallards up north and east, then maybe they are somewhat responsive to a mallard call.

I think I have heard this stated on one of the many calling CDs I have listened to.

Any theories on this for our Florida waters? Cross-species calling ever work well?

Also while on Thanksgiving trip in Alabama, I sat beside a pond near my parents' house and listened at midday to a group of 20 ringers sitting quietly resting. I was within 30 yds hiding in bushes so could hear really well.

No calls at all were made by them, or the mallareds nearby for that matter. Of course nothing was flying around so couldnt test their response to that.

By and large I hear very little from sitting ringers in my hunting experience even when others fly over. Might just be my bad ears or maybe you guys may know otherwise.

[Captmako]

Blind Hog, at HP, in S Fl, you can hear ringnecks quite often, but in my experience it happens 95% of the time when they are taking off. As Sherrell said, it's a pronounced, raspy, prrrt, prrrrt, prrrt, prrrt prrrt....

[sherrell]

i'm sure they spend time in the northern nesting marshes hearing plenty of mallards,i just believe every time they try and decoy to someones blocks thats using a mallard call and they are shot at and missed they start to become shy of decoy spreads.my son and myself harvest our two adult gobblers apiece in florida every year then go out of state to spring gobbler hunt.let me explain it this way about a wild turkey.these guys that make money writing fancy magazine articles want everyone to believe a wild turkey is the smartest bird to walk the earth.call a adult gobbler up to a hog wire fence and you will see he doesn't have the brains the majority of the time to fly over,he will pace up and down the fence.he gobbles most mornings,some roost shooter(complete a$$ H*lles)takes a shot at him and misses then every time he gobbles someone is spooking him then he gobbles less and less.first thing you hear they ain't gobbling.well i guess not,every time they crack their bill they're gettin' spooked.it's a point i believe in,. not call shyness but people shyness.might be our problem with our ducks sometimes.just a thought.

[Dead Ringer]

I never thought that mallard calls would work on ringers until I saw it up here in Canada. In a spot with a 50/50 mix of greenheads and ringers, the highball turned the ringers very well. That said, leave the mallard call hanging if you see ringers in FL. I bought a diver call from Faulk's calls and it sounds on the mark. If you call, Mr Faulk will even teach you how to blow it over the phone.

[sherrell]

have used the same faulks diver call for years and it's a purrfect call for mr redhead and ringers.

[Dead Ringer]

Glad to hear that it will hold up.

[sherrell]

ringer i think i've had it over twenty years now.picked it up while hunting in lake charles,la.