Mississippi Coverage
South Delta Duck Migration Forecast
Delta National Forest, Panther Swamp and the Yazoo backwater down to Eagle Lake. Green timber and brakes that hold when the fields go dry.
See today’s live scoreAll of MS
Season dates: Mississippi duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where South Delta is
South Delta is drawn from 4 counties in Mississippi: Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren and Yazoo. 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 South Delta peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the gadwall peak here around early January. This follows the statewide gadwall 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 South Delta
2 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Forrest City, AR, about 150 miles north and Searcy, AR, about 175 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over South Delta
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KDGX, the National Weather Service radar at Jackson, about 60 miles southeast of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. 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 South Delta 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 Mississippi
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Central Delta, about 50 miles north
- Central and the Pearl, about 60 miles east
- Southwest River Bottoms, about 85 miles south
- North Delta, about 115 miles north
- Pine Belt, about 115 miles southeast
- East Prairie and Noxubee, about 125 miles east
- North Hills Reservoirs, about 135 miles northeast
- Coastal Marsh, about 195 miles southeast
Across the state line
- Northeast Delta, Louisiana, about 60 miles southwest
- Southeast Delta, Arkansas, about 75 miles northwest
- Ouachita and Boeuf, Louisiana, about 85 miles west
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.