Opening Week: Birds, Refuges & What Hunters Can Expect

Podcast: Save it for the Blind Podcast · California Waterfowl

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

With California’s balance-of-state opener right around the corner, Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down for a full preseason check-in with people who have been watching birds and habitat firsthand. The crew talks expectations for opening weekend, what they’re seeing on CWA properties, and why there’s real optimism heading into the season—with plenty of ducks already on the landscape and more birds still holding farther north. Episode highlights There are birds around — Carson says nearly everyone he’s talked to is seeing ducks, and one CWA property was holding more birds than he’s seen th...