Lots of little mergansers
It looks like the entire merganser family is out of their shells and I’ve seen at least one wood duck duckling that hatched. They will jump from the nest box tomorrow, probably in the morning … although … they hatched kind of late today so that might mean a bit later tomorrow morning, or … early afternoon?, … or ? Only momma duck knows, and she hasn’t decided yet.
Outside camera: The camera that is shown on the cameras page right now that is called “Outside” will be pointed at the nest box around dawn tomorrow. I’m not setting it up sooner because it will be battery powered on the other side of the creek, and it might run low if I left it on battery all night.
Try the two camera view tomorrow: it will let you see both inside and outside at the same time. You get that view using the button that looks like this:
The center green bar on the page is movable to resize the two sides.
What to expect: Here again is that page that explains what probably will happen tomorrow.
If one of the cameras drops out be assured that I’m monitoring the same stream that you see, so I’ll know. If you’ve been watching steadily today you will have seen a couple of 4 minute interruptions (one just a few minutes ago) as I reconfigured a few things.
East nest: I checked this evening and all of the eggs are smooth and unbroken. It will be a day or two before they hatch, but they’re due anytime now.
Excellent to see the little cuties.
They are so cute!
Love this!! Thanks for all the info. I didn’t know a lot about ducks & their ducklings. It was so fun to read.