Career
He lives and works in Chincoteague, Virginia and is the resident carver at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum. His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artist value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting. He has carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally uses cork or wood as his medium.
He carved his first duck out of balsa wood in 1940 at his father"s wood shop.
He earned his nickname in 1945 while leaving cigar butts to taunt game wardens while poaching ducks on Assateague Island. Later in life, Daisey was an avid conservationist.
That is the only fully decorative decoy he has ever made. The decoy was featured in National Geographic in June 1980 page 826.
The decoy is estimated to be worth $150,000.
