[3] He was born, lived and worked in Chincoteague, Virginia, and was the resident carver at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum.

[4] His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artistic value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting.

His works include black ducks, mallards, redheads, ruddys and red-breasted mergansers and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs.

He was given his nickname in 1945 by John Buckalew, Federal Game Warden and first manager of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge because Daisey would leave cigar butts to taunt game wardens while poaching ducks on Assateague Island.

That was the only fully decorative decoy he had ever made, and was featured in National Geographic magazine, June 1980, page 826.