[ Aberdeen Dakota]

Here is a bit more information/photo corroborates what I continue to hear…. that they are stacked in northern South Dakota feeding in flooded, unharvested grain fields. Attached are pictures of mallards (mostly) this weekend in South Dakota.

That could be changing as the temperatures drop in Prairie Canada and northern U.S. states. This week will be the first time the temperatures do not exceed freezing. There continues to be a tremendous amount of water and flooded unharvested bean and corn fields in the mid-west/Great Plains. Even when that water freezes there will be open water available on the Missouri River. We will really need some snow to push the bulk of these birds away from the food and south.

Daryn Hanley