GOT EGGS

I checked all my wood duck boxes over the weekend. The box out in the wetlands was empty but showed signs that a duck my have been in it. There was as a impression in the shavings and a feather or two. The box pictured here is in the hedge row by the small pond. This Box has 17 eggs in it.The duck covers them with down when not there. I moved it away to count the eggs.I'm going to set up a trail cam on the nest box today. Last year this box got raided.
I put the guard around the post since then. I put another box for ducks by the cabin to replace the one that now has squirrels. That box had a good hatch last year.
My bother Mark checked his boxes over the weekend and found this early hatch. By the size I'm thinking she hatched in January..Mark has these boxes at the east end of his pond.
This box is at the ditch .This duck is on the job. She's setting on these eggs.