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 …
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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 …
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.
The Lone Oak Duck Club
The Lone Oak Duck Club is an L-shaped tract of land in Bates County, Missouri. As the duck flies it’s roughly three miles northwest of the Four Rivers Waterfowl Management area. It was founded in 1979. I know because I was one of the founders. “Duck Club” sounds like a fancy place where rich …
Lone Oak Duck Club
Good opening weekend at the Lone Oak Duck Club, then tapering off. Now we’re iced up but hopefully not for long thanks to climate change. This cold weather should bring new birds down from up north (or push the ones that are here on down south). We’ll see what the rest of the season brings. …