Wood Duck Nesting Box Pics
 

Christine and I have been waiting for the jump day, which was today, March 28, 2012, at 10:33 a.m.....Total of eleven hatched and jumped. Here are some pics taken by Christine .

wow thats cool!

That last pic is Awesome!

nice pictures......is this box on your property.

Man that is awesome. Nature at it's finest.

Yes, I have two boxes up, one on Lake side which is in my back yard, then this one that's across the street on my 2 acres next to a brake. This box 2 years ago hatched 24 at one time....two pair of wood ducks laid eggs in it, hatched all 24 but 2 where dead in the box, 22 jumped.

WOW that is awesome!!
Beautiful Pics!

Awesome pics!

beautiful ducks...love it!

Dang man, those are all some awesome pics.

That's awesome!!!!

Awsome pics man you need to register them on delta waterfowls website on the monthly photo contest.

Awesome pictures. I think the male wood duck is one of the wildest looking birds there is. My grandma had one on her pond while we were fishing a couple weeks ago.

pretty damn tasty to baked with some figs. Man talk about want to slap yo mama!!!

Absolutely beautiful. Mother nature at her best!!!!

That is cool! We put a box up a while back in my pond, maybe they'll nest in it next year. They come regularly, I keep corn along the back bank for them.

Those are top shelf !

pretty cool pics man

really love pics!!!!!!!

We'll check into it, may do it.

Great pics !

Great pics

Thank you for sharing the pictures. I love to hunt flooded cypress for wood ducks and these awesome pictures really get my heart a pumpin.

Cool pics

sweeet

Great pics.

I bought a wood duck box and put it up on a tree near my grandma's pond. Should I expect them to find it this year or is it more likely they will use it next year?

That is really cool pics, yessir, you definitely need to enter them for pic of the month.

By the way, did you have a camera setup to take pics automatically, or did you just catch them "jumping"?

Awesome pics. I would love to see more if you have more.

Christine took the pictures, we had estimated the time they would jump...she waited for 5 mornings in a blind near the box to finally catch them jumping.... 5 mornings for 1 minute of pictures.....

They could use it this year, but probably more likely next year. Be sure and get it ready next year, watch out for wasp, and put in some nesting material, wood shavings, no sawdust....

Here's a few more....

Another one.....

another one...........

and here's one more......

and a couple more ....

I like them all but those last 2 are fantastic!!!!

Really nice pics., one day i was fishing chicot and baby ducks jumped out of box while swimming i seen a bass eat a couple of them.

Nice pics, how far away was the blind?

Blind was probably about 30 yards away

Very neat. Congrats!

really good pics i could sit and watch nature all day i feed birds and squirells in my yard have a bunch of both need to try to take some pics

X10000

I took this picture of a Squirrel a few days ago. In the last few day I have tried to "hand" feed the squirrel with no luck. I am not sure if this same squirrel has been back in the last few days. The one in the picture is a Female and looks to be pregnant. If so, I need to try to find her nest.

A long time ago, I hand fed a Dove one time. Then a couple days later while waiting for my carpool to pick me up for work...... a dove flew down and landed a few feet from me. Always wondered if it was the same one.

Speaking of nest..... I found a Mocking bird nest today. She was sitting on the nest, so it might not be too long before they hatch.

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Awesome pics !!!!

Those are great pics. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for the reply. I have the wood shavings in there already, but I'm sure I'll have to clean them out before next season. It looks like the wood ducks I saw on my grandma's pond are nesting somewhere else.