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Show SUCCESSFUL HUNTER Scott Marmon of the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City, traded his Murray physical physic-al therapy practice just long enough to bag these duck varieties at Howard's Slough. A DAILY bag limit of seven in a hunter's possession and 14 limit is enforced. The canvasback is 22 inches in length and weighs an average aver-age of three pounds, migrating in lines of an irregular "V" shape. In feeding areas, they fly an irregular pattern with a rapid wingspread that is often noisy. Their swiftest speed is found on water and they 're distinguished dis-tinguished from redheads and scaups by their body size and shape. A LOT of ruddy ducks have also found their way through Howard's Slough, this year. They usually are about IS1: inches in-ches in length and weigh about one and one-half pounds. They often dive or swim away from danger rather than fly. They resemble bumblebees when flying and often cock their tail upright at an angle, the only species to habitually do so, Wildlife Resources literature says, while moving silently. Mainly lesser scaup are found, there, Mr. Hash says, of about 17 inches in length at a one and seven-eighths pounds weight. Except for wing marks they are similar to great scaup, with a light band near the trailing trail-ing edges of the wings that runs almost to the tip in the greater scaup and only about half-way in the lesser. THE GREATER scaup prefer pre-fer large, open water areas while the lesser are more drawn to marshes and ponds. Greater are about 18' inches long and weigh about two pounds. Both migrate late, sometimes just before freezing. freez-ing. Their flock movements are rapid, often erratic and usually in compact groups. Swan are also starting to come through, now, with one per person allowed with a special spe-cial permit needed. A 20 pounder has already been bagged bag-ged at Howard's Slough, it was reported, tb HOWARDS SLOUGH --The --The isolated, normally peaceful peace-ful domain inhabited primarily by birds and other wildlife turns into a shared one at Howard's Ho-ward's Slough, come hunting season. IT SEES a concentration of redhead ducks generally during dur-ing the first two or three weeks of hunting season' with that species then replaced by can-vasbacks, can-vasbacks, all leading to confu-sion-and overkilling-from hunters, explains Wildlife Resources Re-sources Officer Alan B. Hash. And some hunters--certainly not all-start shooting at everything they see, he said, leading to scores of citations-23 citations-23 over limit the first day-and a potentially large waste. 'StONLrfWO redheads can be shot a day but they are confused con-fused with canvas backs which also carry a two bird limit. A hunter can also shoot one of each. In fact, it's hard, at much of a distance, to tell the difference. differ-ence. "I tell a hunter if he doesn't know his ducks very well, shoot two-then you're safe." An added problem, showing up more this year, involves some hunters illegally removing remov-ing wings and hiding them in decoy sacks and taking the breast out. There' been reports re-ports of 40-50 over limit, Mr. Hash says. |