View Full Version : blue goose in lower MI!!!!!
T.Mayer
10-22-2008, 05:13 PM
i shot this this morning...after a bunch of research i found it to be a juvenile blue goose!!!!! he came in all alone pretty sweet definitely goin on the wall!!!!ive never even seen a blue in MI and ive only ever seen a few snows so this is pretty frickin awesome!!!!!!!
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freefall319
10-22-2008, 05:31 PM
Nice! We see 100's of thousands of snows here every season and i've only seen 1 in my whole lifetime! Good job on the rare bird!
SBE II
10-22-2008, 05:58 PM
Great Job!
blacklab
10-22-2008, 06:04 PM
nice job ive seen a couple of them but never shot one
dahmer
10-22-2008, 06:26 PM
Congrats on the blue goose. Word of advice on getting the bird mounted, I would save your money, it's a juve is most likely full of pin feathers, which means that the feathers are not fully out of the quills yet and when mounting the bird the feathers will not puff out and will lay flat making it look life less and pin feathers will fall out of the mount once the mount drys. Any good taxidermist will tell you the same thing and if they don't there just taking your money and don't care what the mount looks like. Just trying to save you some heart ache.
Interesting....You guys dont have blue geese over there??? There are as many of them as there are snows out here....
LabradorHunter15
10-22-2008, 07:45 PM
Like dahmer said you might want to save your money and wait to see if you can get an adult bird.
Featherbusta
10-22-2008, 07:49 PM
Nice job Re Todd! You might figure out who this is someday! :twisted:
RIVER RAT
10-22-2008, 08:14 PM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
auto-5
10-22-2008, 08:16 PM
Nice bird!
wbfowler777
10-22-2008, 08:20 PM
way to go
Luke Hannon
10-22-2008, 09:52 PM
Thats a sweet looking bird
freefall319
10-22-2008, 11:26 PM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
we get the same ammount out here and i have only seen 1. Mabey it's because we usually dont see them until mid December, who knows. We just dont get them out here very often.
Congrats on the blue goose. Word of advice on getting the bird mounted, I would save your money, it's a juve is most likely full of pin feathers, which means that the feathers are not fully out of the quills yet and when mounting the bird the feathers will not puff out and will lay flat making it look life less and pin feathers will fall out of the mount once the mount drys. Any good taxidermist will tell you the same thing and if they don't there just taking your money and don't care what the mount looks like. Just trying to save you some heart ache.
Very true....Come up towards Muskegon and hunt the Waste Water Unit, there have been 2 Blues brought in to the checkstation so far this year.
GolfCourseGooseKiller
10-23-2008, 06:17 AM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
Actually they are a color morph, much like color differences in labradors. They do not molt and change back and forth.
Congrats on the kill!
RIVER RAT
10-23-2008, 06:18 AM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
we get the same ammount out here and i have only seen 1. Mabey it's because we usually dont see them until mid December, who knows. We just dont get them out here very often.all i can say is wow. they come through here all of hunting season and go back in about 2 weeks. when they migrate back its a sight to see.(last week of feb. 1st week of march.
I thought snows and blues were everywhere. guess not. They certainly love the central flyway then!!
SBE II
10-23-2008, 01:17 PM
Like dahmer said you might want to save your money and wait to see if you can get an adult bird.
I don't think you understand how much of rarity this is for lower michigan. We never see these. I would mount it for sure. Everything is different on the west side of the mississippi.
dahmer
10-23-2008, 02:11 PM
Like dahmer said you might want to save your money and wait to see if you can get an adult bird.
I don't think you understand how much of rarity this is for lower michigan. We never see these. I would mount it for sure. Everything is different on the west side of the mississippi.
I understand the rarity of this bird, it's a true trophy. What I don't understand is why you would spend a couple hundred dollars on getting a bird mounted and have the bird look like crap because it is a juve. Most good taxidermist won't even mount that bird because that they don't want to get a bad name for doing a bad mount.
RIVER RAT
10-23-2008, 02:33 PM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
Actually they are a color morph, much like color differences in labradors. They do not molt and change back and forth.
Congrats on the kill!morph would be the correct term from websters sorry. :shock: i never said that they change the colors.
on a better note after some googleing i found out that most of the blue geese stay in the mid conntinent.(spelling sorry) that would explain why some of you dont see them. i learned something today. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
SBE II
10-23-2008, 02:35 PM
All I know juvenile or not color is color on a bird. I have the michigan state champion taxidermist for waterfowl do mine and even when I blow **** up he always makes it look good so difference in opinion that's fine.
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
Hate to tell ya, but its Squaw Creek not Squall creek
and no, we RARELY see snows in Michigan
RIVER RAT
10-23-2008, 04:33 PM
rare blue goose your kidding. they are here in mo by the hundreds of thousands. do you guys not get very many snow geese? we had like 1.8 million just at squall creek last year. and more through out the state. probbaly 30% blues to snows. they are just a color phaze of the snow goose.
Hate to tell ya, but its Squaw Creek not Squall creek
and no, we RARELY see snows in Michiganif you hate to me then why did ya? i live by it, i know what its called. you will find out as the decades go by you tend to lose stuff that you dont use.(spelling) i was also in a hurry and didnt spell check it, sorry for the inconvenience.
you are not missing much on not getting a bunch of snows they are a pain in the but and hard to decoy when they bunch up like that. you have to have a ton of decoys and alot of ground to hunt.
i seen some you tube videos on all of the geese last year at squaw creek.
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