The value of a vintage decoy can be a major surprise, says Jon Deeter of the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carvers Association, which holds its annual show March 19-21 in Westlake.

By nesting off the ground, these little ducks can protect their eggs and young from predators such as foxes and raccoons. The earliest bufflehead fossils date back to the Late Pleistocene era, which ...

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We tested the best duck decoys over the course of several seasons to find the most realistic and durable models. 743K ; 204K ; 62K ; 108K ; Search for ... Higdon Standard Bufflehead; Best Oversized ...

ON CASS LAKE -- The temperature hovers around 20. A northwest wind drives snow across a steel sky. And Gene Olson of Coleraine is right where he wants to be -- chest-deep in 35-degree water.

Most ducks killed here each year are this species, and many hunters never pursue other types of waterfowl. If you listen to some waterfowlers, you might get the idea that mallards are the only ...

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Frank Varga / Skagit Valley Herald Professional decoy carver Doug Muldowney (right) inspects Rhiannon Barnett's bufflehead duck decoy last week in Stanwood.

We saw a few ducks and launched, setting out 60 decoys where we had flushed some diving ducks. While the impoundment held a crowd of hunters, we were the only hunters on the lake.

They will decoy during the fall migrations, ... Bufflehead, small ducks with distinctively large heads and a white spot behind their eye, are another species that will appear in a hunter’s bag.

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. ... The earliest bufflehead fossils date back to the Late Pleistocene era, which occurred around 129,000 to 11,700 years ago.