Woody Box update #12 Last post

[Canso]

This will be my last post for the spring. We had excellent results this season and some really great images from the trail cams. I hope those of you who followed along enjoyed the updates and it gave you something to occupy your waterfowl offseason for a few months.
We were pleased today to see another first on our trail cams as well as 2 new birds starting to sit on eggs since our last check. Looks like 10 hatches out on the farm, we have 10 boxes there but one was inactive and cleaned out and wasn't re-used. But another hatched out box was reused so very good percentage and we will be expanding our project further along the slough next year.
If we come across anything unusual in the next few checks I'll add a photo here, but lately I've gotten a few thousand pictures of blowing long grass and cranes on the cameras!
But nice to capture this moment for once!

 

[Bigbubba]

You got a forest fire going there?

I really enjoyed your posts.

 

[FLHTCUI]

Thanks for sharing the adventures of those nesting boxes.
Appreciate the time and effort taken in all aspects of the project.
Rob

 

[Rynnik]

I'm new to CGN and hadn't run across previous posts, but this is great! Thanks for the effort and time this must of taken. Well done, beautiful birds and great photos.

 

[fratri]

Thanks for sharing the adventure

 

[Canso]

Not around us. Probably something for farming. Awesome to see when I checked my cards though!

You got a forest fire going there?

I really enjoyed your posts.

 

[Canso]

Thanks for all the comments guys!
We did our marsh check this morning and found 3 new boxes being used. Seems so late in the nesting season but today we saw more Woodys in the area than on previous checks combined.
Strange that on other trips we didn't even see a woody on any sloughs but found plenty of hens in the boxes.
We've identified areas that we will add nest boxes to and expect even better results next year.
Todays hens and a couple area pictures.