My son checked one of our nesting boxes and came across these little guys this morning. This was a dump box with 24 eggs in it. Looks like about 14 to 15 hatched.
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Easter Mornng Woodducks
My son checked one of our nesting boxes and came across these little guys this morning. This was a dump box with 24 eggs in it. Looks like about 14 to 15 hatched.
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Very awesome!
Genesis 9;2
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Walked up on a swamp today and saw three different hens swimming with little ones.
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I saw a pair of Bluewings today
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We just got a property in the upstate with about 30 something Wood duck boxes on it. Some are in ok shape, some are pretty rough.Is it pretty much too late to do anything with them for this year?
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Fix 'em all up as soon as you can and you'll have hens using them this year. I get as many as 3 broods out of some boxes since I clean them out as quickly as they hatch and jump. They use them up til August.Originally Posted by scoutlover
Predator guards are the key as well as trim all tree branches that a snake or coon can possibly reach the box.
Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill
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Thank you for your dilligence at keeping those summer ducks healthy. I enjoy hearing em screaming through the trees about as much as i love watching a greenhead drop through the treetops.
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters" Norman Maclean.
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My wife's aunt has two hens using tree cavities in her yard in Summerton. Really cool. You can see the hen pop her head out from the den window.
Apparently they've been using these trees for years.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
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