Kansas Coverage
Southeast Timber Duck Migration Forecast
Neosho and Verdigris bottoms, Elk City, Fall River and Big Hill. Flooded timber and backwater that stays open when the reservoirs skim, and the last good water in Kansas.
See today’s live scoreAll of KS
Season dates: Kansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Southeast Timber is
Southeast Timber is drawn from 12 counties in Kansas: Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Woodson. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.
When Southeast Timber peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around late October. This follows the statewide pintail curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.
What DuckCast watches upstream of Southeast Timber
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Falls City, NE, about 175 miles north, Fairbury, NE, about 205 miles northwest and Lincoln, NE, about 235 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Southeast Timber
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KINX, the National Weather Service radar at Tulsa, about 95 miles south of the region’s weather point. That is well outside the region, so treat the radar reading as area context rather than a measurement of this ground. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.
Locations stay generalized
Hunter reports for Southeast Timber are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.
Also covered in Kansas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- East Central Lakes, about 70 miles north
- South Central and the Arkansas, about 105 miles west
- Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw, about 125 miles north
- Quivira and the Rattlesnake, about 170 miles west
- Cheyenne Bottoms, about 185 miles west
- North Central Reservoirs, about 210 miles northwest
- Southwest Playas, about 275 miles west
- Northwest High Plains, about 305 miles northwest
Across the state line
- Northeast, Oklahoma, about 80 miles south
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Kansas Wildlife and Parks. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.