I grew up flat out ate up with goose and duck hunting. We had a lease outside of Garwood and I could not wait till season started every year. I was just fascinated by geese and spent my money on calls, decoys, clothes, kites......for goose hunting. (Couldn’t pay me to lay in a muddy rice field anymore). Today driving from Fulshear through Eagle Lake on back roads I didn’t see 1 goose. I know we used to hunt them early in November, while they were usually not plentiful there were geese here early November. Do geese just not come down to the prairie anymore? It was kind of sad driving the area and not seeing a concentration moving across the sky.
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It pretty much is in Matagorda county -
Flyway has shifted do to farmers switching crops.
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There are less and less every year. Species of ducks are changing as well that stay through the season. Evolution.Comment
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Thank LRCA for chopping up the rice field waterOriginally posted by hunterburch42 View Post
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Yup. 100% due to the LCRA. When they pulled the water usage, the rice production went down and then the birds left.Originally posted by highspeed View Post
Growing up, I hunted matagorda county and birds were everywhere. By the late 90's to the early 2000's the hunting got terrible. You can still scratch out some ducks, but the geese are gone.Comment
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West Wharton county and Jackson county still have geese but it’s not anything like it used to be. Our area still grows a fair amount of rice and that’s why we have birds.
This was taken at my place 2 weeks ago. We had a 100 bird shoot last week.
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So there are some geese. I remember in the 80’s when the first couple of fronts blew through you would hear flight after flight heading south. This year I’ve heard 1 goose about 3 weeks ago. I realize there are not nearly as many rice fields as 30yrs ago, but it’s just amazing and sad to me. Where did they go? I assume the geese are wintering north of here. What’s making them stop there after decades of flying to the coast?Originally posted by Pin Oak DXT View PostWest Wharton county and Jackson county still have geese but it’s not anything like it used to be. Our area still grows a fair amount of rice and that’s why we have birds.
This was taken at my place 2 weeks ago. We had a 100 bird shoot last week.
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They’re going to Arkansas. We started hunting them over there. I grew up in Markham chasing snow geese since I was old enough to help my dad and grandpa put out rags. When I get over that way, I cruise back roads and it’s rare to see a goose. When you do see them it’s just a small group. Nothing like it used to be. There are still some around Garwood/El Campo, we’ve had some decent shoots when everything lines up but I quit chasing them over here.Comment
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Back in the early 80's There was a rice field, about 200 ac, behind my place. Lots of geese then. Then a new FM road got put through it. Place got sold off & broken up into small acreages and no more rice. So I haven't seen any geese there since the early 90's.
Used to be a fair amount of rice grown in Brazoria County that drew geese, but next to none now.Comment
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The Karnes City area has more geese each year now than I can ever remember. It looks like the eagle lake area did 20 years ago.Comment
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I think they all flew up here. I really wish they’d go back down there, huge nuisance!
A lot more food here and since they’ve found it, I doubt they ever leave.Comment
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Geese don’t eat cottonComment
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We don't have near as many as we used to. When I was in high school, every wheat field in the county would be covered in geese.Originally posted by JSAPP View Post
Now, the only geese we ever see are at the feed lots West of Karnes City.Comment
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