Episodes
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We talk to biologists in South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri about the state of duck migration so far this year. Great insights from the experts, where to find FowlWeather Podcast hoodies, hats, and stickers, the week 1 Listener Appreciation FowlWeather Podcast Sweepstakes winner is announced, and your migration forecast, all this week!
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More of the Merg Squad at Bard’s Barndaminium – DrMike once again sits down with Frack and Bard to talk mergs and all things ducks in Jacks Reef country. We also have a bit of Merganser Trivia for y’all. Join us this week on another episode of the Kitchen Conversations, raw, mic’d up conversations with duck hunters across duck country, USA.
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We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family and ducks! This week The FowlWeather Podcast team details the fattening patterns of ducks during migration and winter and how it can affect your duck hunting success. We also announce the first of five FowlWeather Podcast Sweepstakes prizes and the availability of FowlWeather hoodies open for online orders. Oh, and the cold continues as we forecast the best days to hunt in the coming week for fresh ducks, hot from the north!
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With so man different public draw systems out there, somebody must do it better than anyone else? Right, why are there so many systems? Is duck hunting so different that every state and province has to have a different system for allocating blinds? Dr. Mike dissects this heavy topic, plus a western front shakes its cold hand and drives ducks south, all this week on The FowlWeather Podcast.
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The long-awaited Long-term Forecast Part 2. The results are IN! The FowlWeather Podcast Long-term Forecast Part 2 dives into what the rest of duck season looks like, when will the cold show, does Old Man winter hide in the Arctic once again this year, or make an appearance as an Alberta Clipper, what’s snow got to do with it all? All that, and this week’s duck migration forecast.
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The FowlWeather Podcast team tackles how ducks move on the moon phase, duck hunting ethic revisited, and your migration forecast.
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A duck camp kitchen conversation in North Dakota about duck hunting beginnings and the first waterfowl kitchen quiz. Waterfowl trivia for duck hunters.
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The FowlWeather Podcast team is back in the home office after a successful ND trip to talk about duck senses, how well do ducks see? How do they pick you out in the marsh flying at 45mph, how do they find food in the wetland, how do they hear your call? And do ducks taste their food? All this, a polar vortex update and your migration forecast this week on The FowlWeather Migration Forecast
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The FowlWeather Podcast team makes the first of 2 long-term forecasts for the season. What’s coming for cold and snow cover into December and January? Find out in this information packed episode, our North Dakota hunt, plus your weekly duck migration forecast.
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The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world’s freshwater but how many ducks do they hold? Has winter ice cover changed in the Great Lakes? We also talk with Ryan Dulaney of Wildlife Strategies about impacts of Florence and Helene on duck country in the MAV and what habitat is lookin’ like for the coming season. That and The FowlWeather Podcast exclusive duck migration forecast for the week!
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Riding out Hurricane Helene in SC low country, a recap of changes in weather severity through time in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways, how do game-farm mallard contribute to a declining migration?, a Baby Jager liver disease update, hurricane happenings, and our duck migration forecast.
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When do ducks start to migrate? Why are there movements happening now in the absence of weather? Is GPS telemetry on ducks the panacea for all of our questions? Does telemetry tell hunters how to hunt? Does telemetry predict ducks in front of your blind?...all that and notes on the ticking time bomb of duck shooting rhetoric.
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How does The FowlWeather Podcast team produce weekly migration forecasts? How do ducks react differently to weather severity and why? What goes into the long-term seasonal forecasts. We unveil the new diving duck migration forecasts, a tropical system update, more on mallards, and the anxiously awaited duck migration…all of this and much more on this weeks episode of The FowlWeather Podcast.
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Wild rice and ducks go together, like, well…. wild rice and ducks. An important duck food, wild rice also pairs well with many duck dishes. DrMike talks with young entrepreneur, McKinley Dixon of Northern Latitude Foods, producers of organic wild rice from Idaho. A family business – they harvest wild rice by home made airboat, an airplane engine repurposed that captures rice brought to the wild lakes of northern Idaho, first likely brought into the lakes by ducks, the wild rice now thrives and so does Northern Latitude Foods. That, some updates on tropical systems, increasing drought, a La Nina update, and so much more on this week’s episode of The FowlWeather Podcast.
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Finding faith in the fact that it will again get COLD, DrMike takes us through the current wetland conditions in the US, talks crop production and its impact on ducks, duck shooting rhetoric 101, the lazy Atlantic tropical storm season to date, and he meets with Ryan Burnett of Pattern Pros – an innovative company looking to make your waterfowl shooting more successful and satisfying.
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The results are in my friends. Duck country is alive and well. The 2024 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey, the BPOP, shows a total breeding duck population up 5% from 2023 in the traditional survey areas, but the devil is in the details. The harvest results are also in from the 2023- 2024 duck season and DrMike breaks down all these results on this special BONUS EPISODE of The FowlWeather Podcast.
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Story telling with a dabble of science is on the menu in this last episode of the summer season before dive headlong into the Fall hunting seasons. Hold onto your summer shorts folks…..“Like a screaming jet those blue-wings ate my world like nothing I’d ever seen. Before I could move a barrel they shot through the decoys, but then they banked, they turned and did a 360 first going skyway, but then coming back down and back our way. The safety clicked, “get ready” said the brain, and those same words came out of my mouth by shear reaction. On their return through, as they took a pause in flight over the decoys, we lit em’ up and dropped 4 out of 8, plop times 4 they went and their brothers, sisters, mommas and pappas went rippin on to their next adventure; maybe they’d see the next gun on the area, or maybe they’d next see the Yucatan.”
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What will the 2024-2025 weather bring? It is still a long way off, but there are some strong trends developing. The meteorological Fall is September to November and first looks are coming into focus. The FowlWeather Podcast provides a first look at the coming season! Wealso cover how we make duck migration forecasts, where we make forecasts, and we introduce The FowlWeather Podcast photographer of the year, Matt Miseciwz.
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