I shot a limit consisting of teal, mallards, and a Scaups, I believe it was a Scaups .
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"I believe it was scaups (sic)..."
That's a really weird looking 'scaups', bud. Lesser or greater, you figure? And no, that ain't no ruddy hen.
Remind me to relate to you the details of the tale of the wounded eider and the post-mortem. After a merry chase and deep diving evasion game that bull common eider somehow transformed into an arctic loon. Two of us on board just started out with 'NOOOOOOOOOOOO!' as with horror we witnessed the fellow who recently wounded the original bird shouldering his gun and cutting loose on the AL just as it surfaced in front of the bow. BTW, ALs are *super* rare in these parts.
"Time for an ID lesson. For starters, 'no sea ducks have a pronounced, long and sharply pointed beak and from stem to stern measure about 3 feet long..."
Enough about game bird ID details for now. We need to talk about your, um, paint job.
