Quivira and the Rattlesnake

Salt marsh on Rattlesnake Creek down through the Reno and Pratt sand prairie. Holds three weeks past Cheyenne Bottoms and hunts a different zone.

5.6

Moderate Movement

Low confidence↓ -1.6 last 24hPintails 6.0

Mallards score, conditions as of Tue, Nov 3, 9:00 PM

Today's Hunt · Tuesday, Nov 3

Quivira and the Rattlesnake

5.6

Falling 12° vs yesterday

Legal light 6:31 AMSunrise 7:01 AMSunset 5:34 PM🌗 Last quarter · 40%

5AM21NNW · 58°

6AM21NNW · 57°

7AM27NNW · 56°

8AM28NNW · 54°

9AM28NNW · 52°

10AM27NNW · 52°

11AM28NNW · 52°

7.0Decoy score · WorkableLow overcast keeps birds low and honest · Gusts to 50: decoys will look wrong on open water · Midweek rest: birds have settled since the weekend crowds

Best window: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Built around the strongest northwest wind of the morning

Corn harvest roughly 93% complete, heavy field feed available

Season dates · High Plains Unit October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027 and January 22-31, 2027. Low Plains Early Zone October 10 to December 6, 2026 and December 19, 2026 to January 3, 2027. Low Plains Late Zone October 31, 2026 to January 3, 2027 and January 23-31, 2027. Low Plains Southeast Zone November 7, 2026 to January 3, 2027 and January 16-31, 2027.

Times shown for the region center. Season dates and limits change yearly and by zone: verify with Kansas Wildlife and Parks.

Water Status

Playas and sheet water: OpenMarsh and creek bottoms: OpenReservoirs and river: Open0 freezing degree-days over the last 6 days, counting the next 2 at half (estimated from air temps until the satellite ice feed lands)

Water on the landscape: Water on the landscape is in decent shape (21% of Kansas in drought, US Drought Monitor).

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Why this score is moving

Corn harvest roughly 93% complete, heavy field feed available

48-Hour Outlook

Fair

Corn harvest roughly 93% complete, heavy field feed available. Strongest window: Tue into Wed.

14-Day Score Outlook

Mallards

Days 8 through 14 sit beyond the reliable forecast window and lean on season history. Read them as a trend, not a promise.

Inside the model

The score is a weighted blend of the drivers below, each rated 0 to 10 from current conditions. No black box: this is the whole model.

Cold front / temp trend21% weight

4.7

Temps falling ~7°F into the next 48h

Wind direction + speed19% weight

5.8

NW winds to 12 mph across 19 of the next 48h

Freeze north of region11% weight

1.5

0% of upstream hours below 28°F

Snow advance upstream7% weight

1.5

Little to no snow upstream

Local open water / holding13% weight

9.0

Waters open, birds can stay and feed

Season timing19% weight

6.3

Shoulder of the migration window

Crop harvest / field feed11% weight

8.7

Corn ~93%, beans ~86% (typical-progress estimate)

Hunter reports0% weight

5.0

No reports in the last 72h, so this factor is not counted

North of you

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The freeze line across the stations upstream of this region, station by station, so you see shallow water locking up before the birds arrive on it.

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Radar check

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Last night's NEXRAD read on whether birds actually moved: how much lifted off after sunset, which way it tracked, and how fast it flew under its own power once the wind at that altitude is subtracted out.

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Local conditions

50°Fnow

NNW 4 mphwind

↓ 2°next 24h, falling

Day	Hi / Lo	Wind
TueNov 3	61° / 48°	NNW 28 mph
WedNov 4	61° / 42°	WNW 11 mph
ThuNov 5	53° / 45°	NNW 12 mph
FriNov 6	57° / 40°	NE 7 mph
SatNov 7	57° / 45°	ESE 6 mph
SunNov 8	61° / 42°	SSW 9 mph
MonNov 9	64° / 45°	S 17 mph

Hunter intel

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What other hunters reported in this region over the last 72 hours: species, how hard they were feeding, and whether the birds looked like new arrivals. Filing your own report is free and counts toward this region's score either way.

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