first one I ever killed! awesome little bird!

Tiny little things aren't they? And dumb as rocks!!!

What is it??

Bufflehead

buffelhead

Mainly a coastal bird. We get em thick on the texas coast at times. If you have bufflehead deeks, you can stand right next to em and they'll come in. But man are they fun to shoot.

We killed some on our trip in Kansas last week, pretty little birds fa sho!

Makes a great mount in flight. That was my first bird I ever killed with my Dad.

We get in to em pretty good up here in mn and they sure are dumber than a box of rocks and congrats!

Ruddy Ducks are dumber than than any duck I've ever seen, prolly dumber than coots.

We had some light in the pond we were hunting and no matter what we did they wouldn't leave.

Pretty little ducks. Used to kill them a bunch on a lake I used to hunt divers.

Thanks!!
We seen a few the other moring 3-4. My son had a shot at one but missed, and we talking about mounting it if he had killed it.. I had 3 come in the deeks (feet down!!) this morning 2 females 1 male so I took him knowing I wanted to mount it. I hope my son gets a chance at another one and we will mount the pair.

Good eating them butter balls are!!!!!!!!!!

we shoot them too fill the time in this part of the country.

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We kill ours mostly in open water.

Nice buffie!
Take a pic of the tail feathers and I might be able to age it for you

We shoot a bunch up here in Canada - diver hunting is a riot!!

That's a nice looking one you got there


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That's a nice looking buff for Sure. Congrats

thats a bull buff. we shoot the crap out of them when hunting blackheads and redheads on the sound. on a calm day when the blacks and reds arent flying one or two buff decoys is deadly and fun.

And today I killed this Dosgris (blue bill). The band is so old you can't even make out the numbers. You can only see parts of 1-2 numbers.
I had to laugh out loud when I picked it up. Its my 3 banded duck and prolly one Ill talk about the most!

My buddy killed a banded drake bluegill last weekend,first one where we hunt..... That's cool man

Anyone know how to retrieve the numbers off of a band that's wore out?? This thing is 98% wore to where I can't read 1 number clear.

Wrap a piece of paper on it real tight and gently scratch a pencil over it?

Spray it with some kind of etching solution? Maybe that will highlight the low spots?

shit, I dunno.

Lol. Me either!!!

You might be shit outta luck on that one. Call grissom, maybe he's got some kinda bug he can put on it and bring the numbers back to life.

I looked them up. They will send it back but sometimes they are to worn to get any info. I'm thinking this maybe the case. But I'm sending it in

Buddy had a band like that on a can. Was so worn we about broke it getting it off, ended up cutting foot of so we did not mess up band. completely blank like yours. Old bird for sure.