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Offline seth30

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Had a first happen to me!
« on: December 03, 2011, 03:19:26 PM »
Got to one of my ponds this morning and put my decoys out around 0600.  Sat back and waited for the shooting time .  Well around 0630 my labs start perking up and a rush of wings went right over our head and I hear a large smack on one of my decoys.  It was still pretty dark, but the wingspan was massive, and looked to big to be a owl.  I couldnt make out any colors but by the way it came and went it sure was a bird of prey.   Do eagles hunt in the dark :dunno:  How many of you have had your decoys attacked?  It sure did remove the need for a cup of coffee pretty quick :chuckle:
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 03:23:11 PM »
Twice I've had hawks attack my decoys on the little potholes I hunt on. Pretty cool to watch.

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 03:24:31 PM »
If there was a little more light I would have tried to film it.  To tell you the truth it starteld the heck out of me :chuckle:
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 03:25:24 PM »
Cool!   You assumption of an owl is most likely the correct one. 

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2011, 03:27:07 PM »
maybe a great horned owl :dunno: It was too big to be a barn owl or barred owl.
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2011, 03:29:48 PM »
Did it get away with your decoy?

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2011, 03:31:27 PM »
No it sure did smack it really good though. 
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2011, 03:33:01 PM »
Both times I've had it happen they just hit it and go...they don't like the hard plastic  :chuckle:

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2011, 03:37:02 PM »
Both times I've had it happen they just hit it and go...they don't like the hard plastic  :chuckle:
:chuckle: I glad they dont like it, could you imagine coming home without all the decoys you put out :chuckle:
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2011, 03:45:56 PM »
I had a bald eagle swoop down and hit a dead greenhead that was still on the pond....that was pretty awesome.  Never a decoy though.

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2011, 04:04:49 PM »
one thing for sure, Green Head Gear is not just for waterfowl
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2011, 04:29:58 PM »
Had the same thing happen to me last year. It was actually light enough out to see. So saw the owl up in a tree, couple minutes later it flew down an attacked my decoy the same way you discribed your incident. Only this owl came back a second time an did the exact same thing. picked up the decoy and it was destroyed. Unbelievable to have actually see it happen.

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2011, 06:37:52 PM »
Had a Great Blue Heron dive bomb my heron decoy. That was cool @ 20 yds.

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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2011, 06:45:29 PM »
Very cool seth!
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Re: Had a first happen to me!
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2011, 10:42:12 PM »
cool, I've been using GBH decoys for a long time. Today, I had mine perched on some cut logs and saw a great blue squawk when leaving a tree but he didn't swoop down and fly across the pond to where i was at.
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