Duck trap Decoy Gallery
We have a showroom adjacent to our shop. Open during warmer weather, it showcases a wide variety of our decoys–not just terns, but ducks and shorebirds of many types. The inventory changes constantly, and what makes selling them online challenging is that prices vary depending upon the amount of time involved in each piece. One Wood Duck drake won't necessarily be same price as one that was there earlier. That's the way it is with handmade pieces.
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Have a peek inside....
Walk into our gallery and this is one of the first displays you will see. There is a Wood Duck Hen, A Canvasback drake a Black Duck, and a Common Goldeneye drake just on one shelf. Those are all ballasted hunting decoys. Below those are a Razorbill, a Common Eider drake and his mate a Common Eider hen, and a Common Merganser. Down one more shelf is a Greenwing Teal drake, a Canada Goose, and a Harlequin drake. That's a Raccoon in a hollow log to the right. All of these pieces are hand carved and painted.
Top Shelf: Semi-Palmated Plover, two Arctic Terns and a Sandwich Tern, a Quail, and a turnback Crow. Middle Shelf: Dunlin, a Pod of Dolphins carved from a solid piece of Honduras Mahogany, and a pair of Bufflehead ducks. On the bottom shelf is a Goldeneye drake, a realistic Bufflehead, an Atlantic Salmon, and a pair of Mourning Doves,
You should expect to see seabirds in a Maine Coast gallery, and here are a few of the many we offer. A standing Razorbill, medium and lifesize Atlantic Puffins, and medium and lifesize Common Murres. Head on in the foreground is a Least Tern though he's difficult to identify from this angle.
More to see everywhere you look...On the upper shelf are two Goldeneye drakes, a Barrows and a Common. Next to them a Surf Scoter, a Bluewing Teal, a Black Duck, and a Yellowlegs. The lower shelf holds a Mallard, A Redhead, a Hooded Merganser, a Bluebill (Scaup) and a Redbreasted Merganser.
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There is lots more to see. How many can you identify in this next picture?
