Maryland Coverage
Upper Eastern Shore Duck Migration Forecast
Kent and Queen Anne's: the Chester River, Eastern Neck and the corn country behind them. Canada goose ground first, with tidal marsh ducks along the water.
Where Upper Eastern Shore is
Upper Eastern Shore is drawn from 2 counties in Maryland: Kent and Queen Anne's. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.
When Upper Eastern Shore peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the mallard peak here around mid January. This follows the statewide mallard curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.
What DuckCast watches upstream of Upper Eastern Shore
6 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Harrisburg, PA, about 90 miles northwest, Wilkes-Barre, PA, about 145 miles north, Binghamton, NY, about 205 miles north, Montezuma, NY, about 265 miles north, Cape Vincent, NY, about 345 miles north and Missisquoi, VT, about 425 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Upper Eastern Shore
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KDOX, the National Weather Service radar at Dover, about 40 miles southeast of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.
Locations stay generalized
Hunter reports for Upper Eastern Shore are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.
Also covered in Maryland
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Upper Bay and Susquehanna Flats, about 25 miles north
- Mid-Shore and Blackwater, about 30 miles south
- Baltimore and the Western Shore, about 35 miles west
- Piedmont and Upper Potomac, about 60 miles west
- Southern Maryland, about 60 miles southwest
- Lower Eastern Shore, about 65 miles south
- Atlantic Coast, about 75 miles southeast
- Western Maryland, about 140 miles west
Across the state line
- Lower Susquehanna and Middle Creek, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles northwest
- Delaware River and the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles north
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Maryland DNR. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.