GPS and banded old squaw

winston · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:10 am **Posts:** 64

Got out Friday and there were tons of birds around but the wind and waves made things difficult. After going to 3 different locations we finally settled in and dragged 2 longlines out into the lake and set up to shoot black and whites. It wasn't long before the first pair was in and I dropped them. The dog had his work cut out for him in the big surf by did great.

The action was pretty consistant through the day, with periods of hot and cold. Just as we were talking about packing up, a small flock circles in the distance and is headed for our dekes. I looked for the drake and squeezed off a single round. When Logan retrieved the bird I could see a wire coming from it's back and a band. Unfortunately it appears that I shot off part of the transmitter wire.

sorry about the photo, left the good camera at home.

catcher · **Joined:** Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:12 pm **Posts:** 393

Wow that is neat , That is pretty rare to have a transmitter on it as well. I shot a goose once with a neck band on it , but I have never heard of a transmitter before. How are you going to put that on your lanyard. :lol:

adventure · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:55 pm

That is cool.
I went out and got my limit today. A lot of pintails around where I was. They are one pretty bird but stayed out of range. Longtails are still one pretty bird too though.

winston · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:10 am **Posts:** 64

I'm friends with the guy that did the banding and doing his Masters on the over wintering habitat of longtail ducksbut I wanted to get a hold of him to confirm that this was indeed one of his birds. I confirmed that this bird will be spending it's winter in my freezer and will be sending him back the transmitter so that he can repair the anetnna I shot off and implant another bird.

He implanted 18 transmitters, 3 have been reported shot. He has banded 51 birds in total.

All birds were captured on Lake Ontario in the past few weeks.

winston · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:10 am **Posts:** 64

adventure wrote:

That is cool.
I went out and got my limit today. A lot of pintails around where I was. They are one pretty bird but stayed out of range. Longtails are still one pretty bird too though.

Great looking haul of birds! Congrats. I would love to see a few of those pinnies tomorrow when I'm out. They sure taste better than the Squaws!!!

West Lake Willows · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:52 pm

winston wrote:

I'm friends with the guy that did the banding and doing his Masters on the over wintering habitat of longtail ducksbut I wanted to get a hold of him to confirm that this was indeed one of his birds. I confirmed that this bird will be spending it's winter in my freezer and will be sending him back the transmitter so that he can repair the anetnna I shot off and implant another bird.

He implanted 18 transmitters, 3 have been reported shot. He has banded 51 birds in total.

All birds were captured on Lake Ontario in the past few weeks.

Wow.very cool! Would your buddy consider taking the time to put a post up about his research project? I'd love to hear how he does it and how it is going. I've long wanted to GPS track the quinte walleye. Wasn't sure about permits required, cost of equipment, etc etc. If he doesn't want to post could you please forward him my email address of Scott "at" westlakewillows.com I'd love to ask him a few questions.

BTW good shooting and pretty neat that of all the birds out there you got one of your buddies banded and GPS tracked. Small world .

Scott

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winston · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:10 am **Posts:** 64

Hi Scott,

Here is the link to his research page:

http://longpointwaterfowl.org/research/ ... led-ducks/

I am a graduate student at Queen's University (Fisheries Biology/Ecology) and actually have done bass and lake trout tracking (radio tracking, not GPS) in the Kingston and Algonquin Park areas. It is very cool stuff so if you have any questions about it, ask away.

playinhooky · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:24 am **Posts:** 104

Those ducks were caught, tagged and had the gps thingys put on them at Salmon Point right at the lighthouse. My family owns the property where they were catching the ducks and I had a chat with the guys that were catching the ducks. They are studying there migration patterns.

winston · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:10 am **Posts:** 64

playinhooky wrote:

Those ducks were caught, tagged and had the gps thingys put on them at Salmon Point right at the lighthouse. My family owns the property where they were catching the ducks and I had a chat with the guys that were catching the ducks. They are studying there migration patterns.

I posted above the actual research outline above that Phil, the researcher and friend of mine, is actually doing. It's the over wintering habitat of Long Tails, and not so much the migration patters since most longtails finish their migration at Lake Ontaio. Their "migration" so to speak is over, but we see horizontal movement along shorelines associated with habitat use.

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