Wood duck hatch! Update #4

Canso

Canso

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Another first for us, I was able to capture newly hatched ducklings with my iPhone pictures the other day. I set things up to capture the exit (usually the next morning) but our trail camera delay doesn't react quick enough....
I also had a camera aimed at the water under the box, caught some great photos of ducks and a Heron catching 3 fish last week but the camera only snapped one photo of me walking by before I left so no just exiting duckling pics. But we were fortunate that the next day when we went to recover the trail cam cards, there were a couple hens with ducklings in the slough. A couple mallards and a Woody hen that we figure has to be our hen!
We are now up to 8 of 14 boxes with eggs now, the cameras indicate a couple more boxes are close getting eggs soon too.
Enjoy the pictures!









 
Still snow on the ground and the lake ice still strong on Babine Lake. Just opened up in front of us . Trumpeters went through a while ago, did not stick around. The loons are gathering, waiting to head out to the smaller lakes around here (they are still frozen), 10 in a group yesterday. Thought we may have seen a golden eagle juvenile the other day, not sure. The swallows arrived last week and we have two for four in our swallow houses right now. Moved them around a bit from last season as they were too close together. Barrows Goldeneye, mallards and mergansers have arrived so far. It is just a pit stop for the Goldeneyes. There are bat boxes around here as well and am thinking it would be wise to put a few of those up as well. You have some great photos.
 
How large of a pond do you need for duck boxes? I think my kids would get a kick out of that, they have hatched their own chickens (layers) and raised meat birds from a day old.
 
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