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I am retired, so living the dream. I hunt most every weekday morning from sunrise until noon Sept - mid January. If I shoot a rooster, I generally celebrate with the lab and head for home. At my age, it is more about getting out, enjoying the dog work, hunting a different spot every morning...

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Montana bluewing teal

Basics in the Retriever world can involve many concepts. When I see posts about Basics, it is typically procedures: Force-Fetch, Single-T, Double-T, Multiple Marks, Cheating Singes, Swim-By, etc. Instead of procedures, I think of the end product: Line Manners: Will the retriever sit quietly in...

More Montana Cinnamon Teal from this morning.

Cinnamon Teal out about 200 yards away. Bluewing Teal out about 200 yards.

Drake mallard at the refuge.

From this morning, this pair hung around for about an hour.

The do look out of place when on land, beautiful in the air or water.

From this morning's 8-mile hike here in Montana. Canvasbacks standing.

A pair of Canvasbacks after drinking water

Drake redhead after preening Hen redhead after preening Drake Canvasback preening

Canvasbacks from this morning's 8 mile refuge hike

From this morning's Montana hike: Drake Gadwall: Shovelers shoveling:

Cinnamon Teal photos from this morning's 8 mile hike here in Montana.

Having fun taking photos of migrating ducks here in Montana. I've been using a relatively inexpensive used bridge camera (Nikon P900) on my daily morning hikes at a local refuge. Lots of diversity in Montana...mallards, pintails, widgeon, gadwall, 3 teal species, wood duck, shoveler, diver...

I hike a National Wildlife Refuge every weekday morning at sunrise. It is an 8-mile hike and on the way back I pick up litter to keep the refuge clean and to stretch out this 67-year old body. This past week I had a drake canvasback curious about my white trash bag. Pre-dawn so not enough light...

Yes NW Montana has Eastern subspecies unlike most of the west which has Meriam's or RioGrande. I think they were originally transplanted here.

Eastern subspecies here in northwest Montana.

Montana traffic.