Wooden Counterfeits

[Big D]

Well done. Gotta love those baldpates

[OH Osthaus]

Very nicely done

[Kirk Pfeffer]

Thanks! The widgeon was the first deke I ever entered at a competition in Ocean City, MD. Got DQd when it didn't self right. Also neck is too long and looks alert instead of relaxed. Live and learn.
Kirk

[Big D]

The only competition I ever entered, mine was the first bird out of the tank, not because it didn't right itself, but because it was ugly (and hasn't gotten any prettier sitting on a shelf in my cabin)

[Wild Skies]

A trio of small raptors -- a Northern Saw-Whet Owl, an Eastern Screech Owl and a Kestrel:

[charlie cleveland]

those are really nice....charlie

[Kirk Pfeffer]

+1
In fact all the dekes in this post are nice. I've always had a liking for the antiques. I've carved a few fakes and I like the challenge involved in aging them. Using period correct nails, shooting them and trying to simulate decades of wear is an art. There are some who have mastered it but of course there methods are closely held secrets.
Kirk

[Wild Skies]

A pair of decorative Green Wing Teal carved by M.G. Hopkins of Halifax, Nova Scotia

[Wild Skies]

There's a-whole-lotta-character in this little character . . . and a-whole-lotta-clatter on the trout stream, too.

Belted Kingfisher hen, carved by the late Tom Beardsley of Fond du Lac, WI

[Wild Skies]

It's now mid-November and ice is forming over our Northcentral Wisconsin lakes. There are now a couple of small flocks of these late migrating Buffleheads that have stopped off on the yet open areas of Lake Wausau to rest on their way thru . . . we'll see them again just after ice out in early Spring.