I encountered the largest flock of wood ducks I've even seen, today. Twenty-eight birds hanging around a drainage pond. They are so beautiful!!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.That blue! Magnificent.
We have just entered duck shooting season and the dirty tricks may have already started with innocent birds slaughtered and then dumped at the roadside to be conveniently found and reported by an anti hunting protestor.
Talking with a pretty sensible country lad this morning about it and he made the comment that in his belief the populations have to be culled every year to help prevent overpopulation and disease. I refrained from pointing out that the only reason for any population imbalance is due to grain farming and the current practice of letting undersized seed fall to the ground rather than be collected and used, as it was in times past, to feed the chooks and other livestock. Leaving it on the ground in my opinion just leads to mice and cockatoo/ cockatiel plagues and over use of poisons to kill them off. The mice plagues are disgustingly spectacular.
This report is from 7 years ago.
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And what do a lot of people use around the house? Tubes of cheap fluoridated toothpaste simply sliced open to create a mouse feeding trough....and people still use the poison every night or meal time!
FrayedBear
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Mar 24, 2018
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@Insectra Ghastly? The smell! I used as a child to keep two mice. The smell in the house was more than my mother could stand and so outside they went where the wild mice joined them and produced many more. After several litters the female took off with the wild mice and the big fat male piebald mouse I think died of a broken heart. ?
Good captures. This species tends to be spooky, at least they were at our Morehead, KY, farm pond. I had to use a blind..
birdingnut
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Mar 24, 2018
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i have to smile again, the way these birds look at you - & imagine you looking at them the same way.
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