Wood duck houses

[bueller]

Bet you will have a predator guard on there next year.

 

[woodduck]

Man that sucks! War on Coons at browndogs place

 

[browndog]

Man that sucks! War on Coons at browndogs place

Oh yeah. They have been put on notice again. I had a little battle with them last summer when they took me for about 10 dozen ears of sweet corn.

 

[bueller]

Anybody clean out their houses yet? I'm hoping to get out in the next week or two to check on mine.

 

[chucker66]

I planning on putting out a few houses this year. I had three over and my Uncle's place and got woodies and hoodies to nest there. It was cool but he sold the property but now I have my own with 3 ponds on it. Stopping by Menards to get some 1x10's tonight. That's crazy seeing that coon climb up the galvanized pipe. That's what I as planning on using but in deeper water.

Chuck

 

[H20fwler]

I'm putting one on each of our ponds in the next week or so, with sheet metal guards on the posts.
Also putting up four on a buddies property on river.
The ones I'm putting up I got from ODNR three fiberglass and three wood.

 

[woodduck]

Wood Duck and Bluebird box maintenance is on my weekend to do list

 

[bueller]

Didn't get any wood ducks to use my house last year but something moved oak branches in later in the year. All clean and ready now for a duck.

 

[woodduck]

Got my boxes cleaned out and restocked with new shavings last weekend. Had a pair of Mallards and 4 Hooded Mergansers on the pond this morning.

 

[bueller]

I got mine ready just in time for the week of warm weather and floodwater that pushed through our river.

 

[Tree Spud]

Cleaned out 2 of the 3. I had a Teal that nested in one with 5 eggs that hatched.

 

[Jake]

Might have been asked before but can I run more then one house in a small pond? Half acre size pond.


And a awesome post, lots of cool pics and vids and info.

 

[Jake]

Got some answers here.

http://www.woodducksociety.com/qanda.htm

 

[woodduck]

Might have been asked before but can I run more then one house in a small pond? Half acre size pond.


And a awesome post, lots of cool pics and vids and info.

I have 2 box's on my small 1/4 acre pond. I don't know if it matters or not but I tried to keep the houses out of sight from each other. I had a hen nest in one of the box's last year

 

[H20fwler]

Got them put up.

Front pond;

Back pond;

 

[TreeDaddy]

.....even have a kiddie slide for baby ducks to play on

bill

 

[ruskbuckss]

Got some answers here.

http://www.woodducksociety.com/qanda.htm

Interesting on the nest dumping. I read a article and it said NOT to put wood duck houses close together because nest dumping will happen. It said to put the houses up where one house isn't in view of the other. The article I read said nest dumping was not a good thing.

 

[H20fwler]

I read a study I found on the internet that was done in the Dakotas on the placement and preference of the nest boxes before I put mine up.
It said that facing them east was better if they were in open due to the heat of afternoon sun and that hens preferred wood over fiberglass or plastic. Don't know if any of that is really true or not but I tried to set mine up to be as duck friendly as I could.
We have a good size local waterfowl refuge here and they have hundreds of boxes out around the lake made of all kinds of things and over the years I think I've seen hens at every type.
IMO the biggest factor for success in my area is some type of predator guards.

 

[H20fwler]

We put up my buddies nest boxes along the river yesterday, three fiberglass and one wood. They are from right along the bank to twenty yards back from the water, all four of them are from 12'-16' high.
The area can flood pretty bad so that is why we put them so high, now hopefully the wood ducks will take a good look at them a few weeks from now.

 

[Tree Spud]

Cleaned one of mine out and it was a bout 1/2 full of small 2-3" twigs. Would a duck have put these in there?