One of the weirdest hunts I ever had involved a juvi blad eagle. Fuckers are everywhere down here. Anyways, we were hunting a hard falling tide...and I guess the short bus for ducks was running that day, because we shot a pintail with a club foot, a one eyed ring neck that buzzed the blind at like 5 feet and I called and it turned and come back and died (I soon after found out the first time he passed it was on the side that he didn't have an eye
), and a wigeon with a hole in its bottom jaw so that it's tongue was growing through his bottom lip and looked like it had been like that a while. Anyways, we shot 12 or 13 or so then we lost water. Big tides where we were, so what was once 2' of water was now a sand bar. All 10 dozen of my nice pretty greenhead gear dekes were sitting on their sides in the sand. Now, I always bring one of my paw paw's old ass ugly faded flambeau decoys with me for good luck. So we're sitting on this sandbar bullshittin, when all of a sudden we hear some big ass wings flapping...my padnuh said "holy shit it's a fucking bald eagle!" Sho nuff, that young dumb bastard had swooped in and tried to skeef one of the decoys! And of all the 119 lifelike real looking decoys, he tried to snipe old faithful flambeau mallard. Craziest shit I ever saw, and about 15 yards away. It was impressive. Helluva day. One eyed ringer, one legged pinnie, fucked up wigeon, and a thieving ass bald eagle.