Ducks are here! … sort of

It’s been a quiet, slow start here even though ebird.org has reported many wood ducks in the Twin Cities area. Yesterday was the first time we’ve seen them here but they showed up in a large group of 5 males and 4 females. One of the females dropped into a nest box for about 30 seconds, then left. Today two ducks looked but did go into the east and south nest boxes. Both visits lasted about 1 second: beak-in-the-box, peek-in-the-box, gone!

This is typical behavior at this time of the nesting season: nest box visits are very short and scattered. The cameras are set up so I can easily check them for activity (they record only when motion is detected), but I won’t start live streaming until there is something more interesting for you to see than wood shavings in a box. Here’s hoping for a good season!