Outdoors: Sea duck hunting takes flight during holiday season. By Mark Blazis. Correspondent. The Twelve Days of Christmas celebrate the gifts of partridges, doves, French hens, geese and swans.

It's typically a cold hunt, but sporting men and women don't care.

Times have changed, but the tradition remains alive in a different manner.

Sea duck hunting season starts Monday and ends Jan. 28. The previous 107-day season has been much reduced to 60 days to address the decline in sea duck numbers. H Heusmann , MassWildlife’s ...

Atlantic Ocean Layout Sea Duck Hunt. A drake old squaw, common eider, and surf scoter the author shot while hunting in the Ocean off of Northern Massachusetts. (Photo/Ryan Chelius) ...

Most diving and sea duck hunts take place on big water, like ocean bays, rivers, or the Great Lakes, from a boat blind or layout boat. Both types of shooting are difficult. For instance, I’ve layout ...

The sea duck season opens on Nov. 15 and runs through Jan. 13, 2017. To hunt for migratory birds, a resident must have a current regular New Hampshire Hunting, Combination or Archery License.

Despite last Wednesday’s daylong rain, Kermit Henning, Tim Flannery, Glen Burnie’s Tom Elliott and I joined Claiborne guide Norm Haddaway for a dynamite sea duck hunt off of Cook’s Point.

A diminutive sea duck with a white head and a blue wing could bring restrictions to one of the last virtually unregulated hunting grounds in America. Inupiat Eskimos on Alaska's northern coast for ...

These are the duck and goose hunts every waterfowler should make at least once in their life. Many of which are doable DIY adventures that just take some planning and local intel.