bluebill

For reasons I can't explain, however, shovelers seem to be the exception; I've had many occasions when shovelers have turned and flown straight up my long line, much like a flight of bluebills.

When a flock of bluebills swung over the decoys and I half rose to take the shot, the dog catapulted toward the blind door like someone had lit his tail on fire, hitting me with his 105 pounds of pure power on his way to the exit.

bluebills), enormous flocks of Canada geese, as well as smaller flocks of common goldeneyes, buffleheads and mergansers.

Still, I hoped a fisherman, prepared to freeze his or her keister off for a trout or sheepshead, might spook the bluebills lazing in the glassy bay and punt them back in play.

As a result of the increase in overall numbers, federal waterfowl managers have relaxed bag limits for such species as pintails, canvasbacks, and bluebills, which will see a significant increase in the daily bag limit.

But instead of shooting at bluebills he sat alone in his boat just outside the ocean breakers and watched the government crew demolishing camps at the east'ard end of Shack.

Both have pale cerulean bills, accounting for their common sobriquet: bluebills. In the winter, greater scaup are usually found in bays and estuaries along both coasts.

The loud quacking of mallards echoed across the marsh and invisible bluebills ripped through the darkness overhead.

"As the morning went on, we shot mallards, redheads and bluebills. A Canada goose came flying by and I hit it with one shot.

They've got to be ready to go in snowstorms when bluebills and cans are piling into your blocks, or in a goose spread when everything (including you) is frozen; It might be the only shot of the day.

Patrick Smith and his black lab Schmitterwhile calling in some bluebills last winter.

We hunted a canal midday for bluebills but they flew high, and we killed time, shooting a huge black snake we thought to be a Mexican cottonmouth.