Survey

canyoncrosser · May 30, 2017

Just finished my Cali application and filled out my yearly survey. Every year the same. Did I hunt coots, snipe, bandtails etc... I guess I'm just curious is this info helping?

Wiszard · May 30, 2017

They actually called me and asked me all of those questions...funny thing is that the beginning of the conversation started with " I didn't hunt in California last year." He proceeded to ask if I hunted all those birds. No, no, no, no...etc. Dumb.

Cancer doesn't discriminate...don't take your good health for granted because it can be gone in a heartbeat. Please go back and read the last line. This time really understand what it says.

kalielkslayer · Jun 1, 2017

Wonder why they don't ask about chukar.

They migrate.........below the snow line.

I was hunting sage grouse 20+ years ago. The Warden was checking out my birds when I mentioned I had heard chukar on a ridge that has tons of juniper. His reply was there are no chukar this far north. I left scratching my head.

Years later I realized he was probably from So. Cal and didn't know there are chukar in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho, let alone NE Kali and northern Nevada.

Mallards_Only · Jun 2, 2017

It's always astounding to me how little many wardens know about game and firearms. There have been many times that I have been checked in the field where the wardens didn't even know how to operate a basic semi-auto shotgun. I also don't know how they can give tickets sometimes for species overlimits when you have to tell them what they're looking at.

CAelknuts · Jun 2, 2017

Many years ago, I was a guest at a duck club where someone had filled out their possession tag with the species description for a shoveler and a ruddy duck as an "Italian Mallard and Splatterass". We were in the clubhouse eating lunch when in walks a Pair of game wardens - one federal and the other a state warden. They wanted to know who had the two ducks hanging in the cooler because they couldn't figure out what the two birds were.

Several of the guys eating lunch about choked on their food!

novemberforever · Jun 2, 2017

Cal wardens are the least hunter/game educated of any state i hunt. Why? They have had little oppurtunity growing up to hunt. My home state of wisconsin? Those wardens know game and all the tricks. Its all about experience. Get a bs, fog a mirror and you are a state warden. My son is a bio with usfw, multiple book entries, he knows his ##### hunting, bows, guns, species. Btw, can anyone begin to name duck species beyond about #8?

kalielkslayer · Jun 2, 2017

I'll try:

Mallard
Sprig
Widgeon
Gadwipe
Spoonbill
Canvas back
Red head
Wood duck
Green wing teal
Blue wing teal
Cinnamon teal
Ring bill
Ruddy duck
European widgeon

Plus the one I've never seen

Black duck

15 ain't bad. I'm sure someone that has hunted Argentina can come up with a few more including the pretty one I've seen mounted.

DW · Jun 3, 2017

LAST EDITED ON Jun-03-17 AT 06:52PM (MST)[p]Harlequin
Old squaw
Eiders
Lesser and greater scaup (bluebills)
Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Merganeezers (common,hooded, think there's actually another)

Red breasted meegansers #3

Weiserbucks · Jun 3, 2017

Please post a picture of the red breasted one . . .

DW · Jun 3, 2017

http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos_2017/387901.jpg

Weiserbucks · Jun 4, 2017

Thanks DW , I think I had something else on my mind at the time!

eelgrass · Jun 4, 2017

I majored in wildlife management in college. For the mid-term exam for the waterfowl identification class I took, the professor threw duck wings up in the air and we had to identify them on the fly. You had to specify male or female too.

Dr. Harris. He was a great teacher.

DW · Jun 4, 2017

LAST EDITED ON Jun-04-17 AT 07:56PM (MST)[p]>Thanks DW , I think I
>had something else on my
>mind at the time!

I was gonna go with the freshly motorboated pair but I figured founder woulda gave me the boot!

DW · Jun 4, 2017

>I majored in wildlife management in
>college. For the mid-term exam
>for the waterfowl identification class
>I took, the professor threw
>duck wings up in the
>air and we had to
>identify them on the fly.
>You had to specify male
>or female too.
>
>Dr. Harris. He was a great
>teacher.

Them LBB"s are what kicked my butt in ornithology! But that duck ID test sounds like it coulda been tough!