I carved my first greenwing decoys at the same time I carved my first cans from a sheet of 4" black decoy cork. They were pretty crude, but I shot a lot of teal over them in Utah. A few years back I decided I needed to upgrade my teal spread.

I did the preening hen and the conventional drake in 2007, and added the feeding drake and lowhead hen in 2010. Although we see greenwings every year on Thief Lake, we don't see big numbers unless the water on the marsh is lower than normal. When that occurs, it's not unusual to get into some colored up birds just before ice-up.

These decoys are all self-righting, with hollow cedar bodies, basswood heads, and weighted oak keels. All are painted in acrylics.