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North Carolina Wildlife Announces Bird Season

Jul 11, 2007 @ 11:53 pm by Moose

Get your shotgun ready because bird season is just around the corner. NCWC today announced the seasons with resident geese season kicking everything off September 1st.

The following open dates and bag limits for the 2007-2008 hunting season were established:
• dove — Sept. 1-Oct. 6, Nov.19-24 and Dec. 17-Jan. 12; daily bag of 12 and possession limit of 24. (Shooting hours for doves are noon to sunset Sept. 1-8 and one half-hour before sunrise until sunset thereafter.)
• rails (king and clapper) — Sept. 1-Nov. 9; daily bag of 15 and possession limit of 30.
• rails (sora and Virginia) — Sept. 1-Nov. 9; daily bag and possession limit of 25.
• gallinule and moorhens — Sept. 1-Nov. 9; daily bag 15 and possession 30.
• woodcock — Dec. 14-Jan. 12; daily bag 3 and possession 6.
• common snipe — Nov. 14-Feb. 28; daily bag 8 and possession 16.
• early season Canada goose — Sept. 1-30; daily bag 8 and possession 16, except in portions of Dare County on and around Roanoke Island, where the daily bag limit is 2 and possession limit is 4. (When west of U.S. Highway 17, shooting hours for Canada goose extend to ½ hour after sunset during September only.)
• early season teal blue-winged, green-winged and cinnamon — Sept. 13-22 east of U.S. Highway 17 only; daily bag 4 and possession 8.

There is nothing like the smell of gun powder in the morning and hopefully September first I’ll hunt geese in the morning and chase the doves in the afternoon. I’ll have to start checking my decoys and my layout blind to make sure I’m ready.