Post-college, some old friends shot a good take of blue bills (divers aka as lesser scaup) and proceeded to fix an elegant dinner for ourselves and impress our wives. We impressed ‘Em alright — those ducks baking in the oven (I don’t remember any other refinements we had undertaken) drove us right out of the house to some fast food eatery.

I do like teal and woodies; mallards (all puddlers) are ok. I find Canadian geese ok also but have long ago given up on snow and blue geese.