After years of focusing on outdoor land sports, I finally decided to get in the water. Windsurfing is as creative as it is fun, as exhilarating as it is wild! It’s a great way to stay in shape and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Someone told me that I could learn to windsurf in just a few hours – and it was actually true. It’s not a hard skill to acquire, although it’s obviously hard to perfect.
Here’s a great video to give you a sense of how to windsurf. Try it out – you might just be surprised by how much you enjoy it!
Since the site is called Mallard Magic, it seems only appropriate to start by talking about mallards. I happen to love mallards. They are beautiful to admire and serene in the water. Whether for the duck lover, or the hunter, it’s always a good idea to have familiarity with the ducks you are viewing.
The mallard is actually one of the most common ducks. The males are often referred to as “greenheads” and their main wintering area if in the lower Mississippi basin and along the Gulf Coast. You can find them up North as well, pretty much anywhere that open water permits them to be during the winter.
The best time to catch them is early in the morning or late afternoon. These are the hours when the flocks tend to feed and they can be spotted in harvesting fields near the water source. They return to the marshes and creeks at night. Their flight isn’t very fast, making it easier to target them for hunting than some other ducks.
