Mississippi’s early teal season set to open
The fall’s first duck hunting opportunity for Mississippi will begin when the early teal season opens on Sept. 15. Blue-winged teal prefer shallowly-flooded wetlands with natural vegetation like wild millets and smartweed, which produce seeds and harbor invertebrates, but concentrations of birds may also be found on reservoirs, oxbow lakes, catfish ponds, farm ponds and other permanent waters. […]