Has anyone ever..........

[Stillhunter]

I was wondering if anyone has had much luck with teal in dry fields, mainly corn, and beans?????

[4-EYED GADWALL]

STILLHUNTER STICK YO HEAD OUTA THUWOODS TEAL DON'T EAT HARD GRAIN AND THEY DON'T LIKE HOTT DRY DIRT.
THEY LIKE SOFT GREEN AQUATIC WEEDS AND T
THEY ABSOLUTLY LOVE MUD.

MAY WE SUGGEST A MUDDY SHALLOW SLOUGH

[gwall]

don't forget rice , they love rice and flooded rice fields-many of the teal i've cleaned from north of Tallulah rice field were full of rice--but they don't like dry ground--you are right though - a big flat muddy water hole
hole is prime for teal

[Anatidae]

Teal feed much the same way that 'spoonies' do.....by skimming food off the water's surface. I don't remember ever seeing a teal 'tip-up' to feed on submergient vegetation like puddlers.

I have seen teal in 'flooded' corn or beanfields, but suspect they are there because of a presence of other birds, and feed mainly in the shallow parts of the field on things like wild millets and grass seeds that they filter thru their bills like 'spoonies'. 'Just glad they don't taste like'em. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[jbeam17]

In early September I have seen them feed on steel occasionally! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[peewee]

So what yall are saying is that flooded wrp fields would be appropriate. Maybe with a coffee weed seed source or something.