Missouri - Mike Campbell
Here's one of my bands. My son and I were hunting a farm north of our house. It was in January 2007.
Man, it was cold! Snow on the ground, and the birds were staying on a neighbor's lake just to the west of us.
We set up for an evening hunt that day. About 3:00 the birds started to get up, a few at a time. Around 4:00 with icicles hanging from our noses, four birds started to fall in to our set-up.
We rolled all four birds.
When we picked up the birds, we noticed the band on one of the birds I had shot. I've gotten several bands over the years, but never a red one. I first thought it might be a money band or something.
I called the number and was told it was banded two years earlier. It was a bird that was privately banded near Chicago. The bander said he raised the birds from eggs and a coyote had gotten in the pen and 20 or so geese had gotten loose.
The bird was banded in 2005 so this was his second trip south. I shot it near Kansas City, MO.
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