GF
of pintails and widgeon arriving in Imperial Valley and gunners are averaging 3 to 4.
CALIFORNIA: After lull at Tule Lake FG as new flights
of pintails and mallards drop in.
GF of mallards from Galveston to La Vaca Bay and
of pintails from Galveston to Corpus Christi, with GG and OVG.
There are heavy concentrations
of pintails and other large ducks, and some geese, in the Tule Lake - Lower Klamath area, and waterfowl of all kinds are swarming into the central valleys — 59 % more than last year.
Not exact matches
Aerial surveys
of Canadian nesting grounds show mallards have done exceedingly well in all provinces;
pintails are down somewhat in both Alberta and Saskatchewan.
First to arrive in the Southeast were the blue - wing teals, and some
pintails have moved into central and southern Louisiana and the coastal areas
of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
The bay is holding a few remaining blue - and green - wing teals; and goldeneyes, blue - bills, ringnecks and
pintails are migrating the length and breadth
of the state.
On the other hand, the case
of the northern
pintail caught continues to cause alarm since over 70 % have shot in their gizzards, a rate similar to that seen three decades ago.
You are likely to see a variety
of migratory birds throughout the islands: the Kirkland's warbler, white - cheeked
pintail, zenaida dove, great lizard cuckoo, Bahama woodstar, La Sagra's flycatcher, Bahama mockingbird, thick - billed vireo, bananaquit, stripe - headed tanager, black - faced grassquit, and the Greater Antillean bullfinch.