Wyoming Bird Hunting Report

Wyoming Upland Game Bird & Waterfowl Hunting Report
Wyoming Waterfowl Migration Report 2012

4/2/12 Huns/Chukar Combination Hunts available from Sept. 15 to Jan. 31.
3/27/12 Spring means its time to get your fall booking in for upland birds. Our Sage Grouse season has a few spots available, call or email us for dates. Combo trips for Cast & Blast or Waterfowl/Upland Combos continue to be a client favorite, after all there are few places if any that provide such a wide varierty of game birds and awesome fishing all in one package. I will keep you all posted on our hatch conditions for the wild bird populations as spring progresses. Carry over pheasant populations as of right now look awesome, two wet years fallowed by a warm dry winter translates to a ton of birds made it to the nesting period, we witnessed more pheasants this spring during our snow goose hunts than ever before, should be a great fall.

Sage Grouse Bomber

3/19/12 Snow Goose Hunter Receives Extraodinary Jewelry! Client Steve Shelton got a big surprise on his Spring Snow Goose Hunt with us here in Wyoming, on Saturday morning Steve harvested a banded Male Ross Goose. Ross Geese migrate in more abundance toward the tail end of the migration northward and we have been seeing a lot of Ross Geese the past few days during our hunts. Steve's Male Ross Goose had a single leg band that after inspecting was very worn down and razor thin on the edges, right away I knew the bird had to be old, but how old was soon to be answered. After the morning shoot, we immediately went inside the farm house and checked on the band recovery site to get some info on Steve's Ross Goose. The Male Ross was banded as an adult in 1996 on the Simpson River in the Nunavut Province of northern Canada.

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Ross was in excess of 16 years old! How many decoy spreads has that old boy scene, Steve was so excited he is getting the bird mounted with the band as he should. Congrats Steve on being the hunter to bag such a trophy bird. Migration Report: The migration north is just about over for us here in Wyoming, small pockets of less than 5k Snows/Ross remain, if you can find them and conditions are right they are decoying well, when conditions have been difficult especially no wind days the hunting has been hard.

South Dakota Report: South Dakota was not as productive and scouting revealed that after leaving Wyoming with the snow line being all the way to the Canadian Border the Snow geese were literally here today gone tomorrow, we look forward to maybe a little cooler and spring next year to slow down the push north.

March 13, Springer with a Raft of Snows - 70-80k!! This photo is as close as we wanted to walk, but if you look all that white on the water is snow geese, estimated raft was a quarter mile long and in excess of 300yards wide! The birds were packed tight together giving us an estimate of 70-80 thousands snow geese. We have just now been seeing flocks of juvy snows so some birds are moving out and heading north. I will be in Wyoming through the 18th and then will be doing all my trips in South Dakota.

March 3,2012 Good shooting opportunities. We're killing birds everyday now. There has been a huge push of migrating birds, 40K strong moving through. It's been windy, wreaking havok on the decoy spread but we have been making the best of it and still getting some good shooting volleys. As the weather improves the hunting contitions are getting better as well. We still have some openings for the week of the 12th.