Black dux

[Iglow]

Yesterday afternoon we had a group of 5 mallards and a black duck work us 3 times, they would come in but wanted nothing to do with the blind. They'd come in and sail, looking everything over go off and come back again. Finally they left for good. In all that the black kept his distance from the mallards but still hung with them, at no time did he mingle in the group. I don't get to see blacks much and that was the first time I got to see a show like that. With the sun out and low plus a clear sky I could see the colors etc. perfectly. That little episode confirmed stuff I'd read about blacks.
Y'all ever notice the same when you've seen them with other dux?

 

[Bullfrog]

Killed a true black a few days ago that was hooked up with a pintail. Thought it was over before it started but ended up getting her after the pintail did pintail things and flew off.

 

[scn]

Growing up in ETN, we had a bunch of black ducks on the lakes I hunted. They were terrible about "leading off" a group of mallards wanting to commit. I made a point of shooting one every chance I got (until the point system years) as payback for the times they screwed me.

 

[Smashdn]

Never known them to be more wary than mallards as they say. I see them mixed with mallards on the water and the air regular. Right in there amongst them.

I usualy put a pair with my mallards, together but in with the mallards.

 

[Bone_Chaser]

I really want one for the wall. One of the few feasible ducks I havnt gotten.

 

[Mud Creek]

Was lucky enough to get this one.

 

[yellalinehunter]

Was lucky enough to get this one. View attachment 257319

Very nice mount. Who was the taxidermist?

 

[Mud Creek]

Very nice mount. Who was the taxidermist?

Thanks, I took it to Wild Wings

 

[whistlinwingman]

I bought a half dozen G and H black duck decoys a few years back when I duck hunted a lot. Like SCN said, in East Tn we tend to get a few blacks in here, so I always carried some. I always put the black duck decoys away from my mallard decoys. They would be maybe 20 yards away. Never mixed them in with mallard decoys and if there was a black duck in the group you could assure it would peel off to the black duck decoys. I'm pretty sure the limit back then was 1 so we always felt good about not killing one by mistake