In waterfowl season there are a few cars, but "for the balance of the year I'll walk this road and never see a soul," he says.

This winter the pond was closed and rising during the second half of the waterfowl season.

This year, unusually mild weather kept us from hunting all but one day of the first half (Oct. 11-27) of the waterfowl season in our coastal region.

Although there was a slight increase in the breeding populations of North American ducks this spring, New York State's waterfowl seasons and bag limits will remain much the same as last year.

The second thing I noticed was that the geese were afraid of me, which I presume was connected directly to the coming waterfowl season, and perhaps enhanced by the sound of guns.

During the open waterfowl season, U.S. hunters have only been allowed to take two Wood Ducks per day in the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways.

Ducks Unlimited suffered some criticism before the 1985-1986 waterfowl season.

According to the French Government Tourist Office in New York, (212) 838-7800, the waterfowl season begins in mid-August.

In the Atlantic flyway, one of the four major north corridors used by migrating ducks and geese, lifting the Sunday hunting ban could affect waterfowl seasons and bag limits.

In years past, he said, some of those states have asked the service if their waterfowl seasons could be adjusted to include the number of Sundays lost to hunting.