Everywhere you look in Jacksonville you see Canada geese. They saunter leisurely across the street right in front of your car. Honk at them and they pay no attention. There are also alligators in Jacksonville but we don’t see nearly as many of them as Canada geese. When a gator does wander into an urban …
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A memorable Kansas goose hunt
Since this is my blog I felt obligated to add my own comments to this post but my friend Michael Pearce has done such a perfect job describing and photographing it that no further comment is necessary. I’m grateful to Michael for allowing me to use his text and excellent photos. My young friends/cousins, Isaac, 17, …
Ducks ducks ducks and more ducks
Clouds of ducks taking off from the Lone Oak Duck Club in western Missouri. Probably mostly mallards with a few shovelers, gadwalls and teal. But this video was taken in FEBRUARY! Where were they in November and December?? The guys worked hard all summer creating good waterfowl habitat and I’m glad the birds can use …
More big Kansas white tail bucks
My friend Dave lives just outside Shawnee Mission Park in Shawnee, KS which is home to a huge white tail deer population. Sometimes the deer wander over onto Dave’s property to get their pictures taken. These two ten pointers and…I think the other is a twelve… wandered right in front of Dave’s trail cam. That’s …
Kansas Wildlife & Parks magazine
This is my first Way Outside cartoon for Kansas Wildlife & Parks magazine. July/August 1998. If my math is right…and it sometimes isn’t…2022 will start my twenty-fourth year working with this wonderful publication. I’m thankful that then-Editor Mike Miller took a chance on me and did something goofy and I’m blessed that when current Editor …
Another year of Marsh Madness
2022 will be the start of my 18th year drawing the Marsh Madness cartoon for Wildfowl magazine. I’m grateful to editor Jay Strangis for taking a chance on me. Skip Knowles followed Jay as editor and chose to keep the cartoons coming so I have Skip to thank as well. For those of you who …
Say you were a duck…
Say you were a duck… flying along… just looking for a nice place to eat… and you saw a place like this, wouldn’t you lock up and cruise right in? That’s apparently what this mallard drake did when he spotted the Lone Oak Duck Club. Maybe the guys down below in the duck blind should …
Forbidden love in the woods
Opening Weekend at the Lone Oak Duck Club
If done right, owning a duck club is an all-year job and the guys at the Lone Oak Duck Club do it right. That hot sweaty work all summer starts to pay off and by November the place is a duck cafeteria. There’s a long season ahead, but first… the traditional night-before-opening-day bonfire.
Fast food from the farm
The annual early teal season is usually a total crap shoot. At least it is at the Lone Oak Duck Club in western Missouri. Sometimes the little speedsters have come and gone before the season opens. Other times they’re still up north. The table is setNo need to brush a blind. Just hunker down in …