There's something almost ethereal about the humble duck, says Eliot, Maine, resident Jim Higgins — its beauty, its wanderlust, its calls, its many hues. From the time he was a young man, he has been ...

I carved a swan from a large piece of Buckeye Burl and 13 gallons of epoxy. The process involved sizing the buckeye, followed by 6 separate pours of epoxy over two weeks. After the epoxy cured, I used ...

In an age of high-tech hunting gear with the latest bells and whistles, some hunters choose to get back to the basics. That’s certainly true for long-time waterfowl hunter and decoy carver Randy ...

Families came out to Duck Duck Goose Day at the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center on Saturday to learn about the art of waterfowl decoy carving. The day includes decoy carving with soap, live baby duck ...

Larose, La. (WAFB) - Duck carving began out of necessity as a way to make wooden decoys for hunting. But in the last couple of generations, it has turned into works of fine art. One of Louisiana’s ...

God, Don Huber of Folsom likes to say, created every winged fowl. The best we can do is try to duplicate them. Huber has been doing just that for almost 40 years now, carving colorfully realistic ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber that, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

Gary Lipham has carved just enough wooden duck decoys to understand how much skill and creativity the craft demands. “I wanted to have an appreciation for carving, so I carved a little bit,” said ...

Jeff Scavazzo’s wood ducks are really something to quack at. The Forest Lake Twp., Susquehanna County, resident has been spending time in workshops carving his famous wooden ducks since 1980. “It all ...

MARION, Md. — A Maryland man has won a prestigious award for his duck carvings. Richard Smoker, who moved from Selinsgrove 26 years ago, was awarded the best in world award during the Ward World ...

On a nearby table are fish, duck calls and duck carvings along with ribbons Jimmy Crooks won from the Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers & Collectors Guild this year. A carving he did of two fish won first ...