baby geese and beavers
 

with spring here in montana, i have the same mother goose in the same nest this year. it is right below the house in the river on a pile of logs. took the usual 30 days for the babies to hatch. right now there is a giant pile of down in the nest. nothing to see but that. no heads poking out. i suspect over a dozen of the little buggers will pop up soon.
then she will take them down river quickly.
five beaver are at work in the same stretch of river. a few are this years young. it is fun watching them cut down trees and also little willows. there is also a beaver in my pondt daming up the outflow saving me the trouble of getting wet and muddy.

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ye..wait i respect ray zee too much for this. Montana sounds like a beuatiful place. Do you live near doyle?

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pictures?

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wow, that sounds pretty [censored] awesome.

im jealous. i dont even have a back yard.

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do you have fish in your ponds?

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there is also a beaver in my pondt daming up the outflow saving me the trouble of getting wet and muddy.

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That's awesome. Maybe you should throw it an apple, carrot, potato, or a fish you catch (must be dead/fresh) to say thanks.

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only a few fish in the ponds as they are fairly shallow and are formed by springs on the property. the water is probably too clear for them but big fish wont last too long as there is also a small family of otters that live around the place. they clean out the fish pretty well.

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The Venetian canals have been home to six baby ducks and their parents for the past few weeks. I go by there occassionally during my walks and feed them crackers.

Baby ducks are cute. http://forums.footballguys.com/forum...efault/wub.gif

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stop by a feed store. you know farm and ranch or horse place. and get a 50 lb. bag of cracked corn for 6 bucks. that beats the white flour thats not so good for them.
feels good hanging around animals doesnt it.

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Victoria, B.C. this past Christmas:

$1 bag of duck food from local feed store + 5 yr old Niece + 2 yr old Nephew + 1,000 ducks = good times.

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http://www.queensu.ca/security/graph...uck-grate1.jpg

http://www.queensu.ca/security/graph...uck-grate2.jpg

http://www.queensu.ca/security/graph...uck-grate3.jpg

Apparently they were rescued: link

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There was a story on the news today about rescuing some baby ducks who had fallen through a grate.

It made me think of these photos (which are rather old).

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ohh... that so sad. I hate to think of all the ducks that die that way each year. (when someone isn't watching or it's dry down there)

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I can't imagine its too many. What are the odds that a duck leads little ducks across a grate?

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I don't know, but it's not like storm drains/grates are incredibly rare.

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That is true; but they don't often share the same neighborhoods as ducks, so they?

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In Indiana, almost every suburb I know of has retention ponds. The storm drains lead to the pond so unless they are killed in the fall, can't navigate in the dark [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img], or get stuck in debri in the drain, they should be ok. The retention ponds attract ducks/geese like a magnet. Heck the swimming pool in my parent's backyard is visited by the same ducks every year. Last year they had about a dozen baby ducks. There is a storm drain in my yard (which is 2 acres in size) that leads to a large reservoir/lake. It's about a 1 mile journey to the lake from my house.

In Cape Cod, there are storm drains/ducks all over the place.

So my guess is yes, they often do share the same neighborhood. I'm not sure there's much you can do, it's just kind of a sad way to go. That's all I'm saying. In that picture previously posted, you know that mom duck is looking at it's baby duck and the baby duck is looking up at the mom but... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Sad way to go. And those ducks are smart enough to know whats going on.

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wacki, did you read the link i posted below the pics. all but one of the ducks was saved

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I'm thinking about every drain and every duck on the planet and wondering how often this happens.

Don't worry, I'm not gettin emotional or anything. Animals die, it's part of nature, I'm just wondering how often it happens.

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Damn incompetent Secret Service! [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Animals are wonderful. I just returned from a causal slow crawl through miles and miles of 'nothing'. Saw many interesting birds: hawks, ravens, hummingbirds, doves, quail, geese, swallows, Redwinged Black Birds, Spotted Sandpiper, Black-throated Sparrow, Rufus-crowded Sparrow, Goldfinch, House Finch, Western Kingbird, Gray Flycatcher, Rock wren, Catus Wren, and a few birds I could not identify. A variety of lizards, some very colorful, were also around as were some deer. I also encountered many rabbits and a few coyotes - all rather dead looking - flattened by vehicles and dried out by the sun.

-Zeno

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Zeno,

My mom, who is a very domesticated person, hit a large deer once. The crash killed my mom's van. When the sheriff came to the scene, he saw the deer was still alive. So the sheriff pulled out his gun and blew it's brains out right in front of my mom. She screamed like a girl.

I figured you might enjoy that story.

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I have hit two deer in my life, both times the deer got up and ran away, but that does not mean they survived. Many times they have internal injuries and die later on.

My dad hit a deer once, at night, with all of us kids in the car. The deer got thrown down in the ditch and was still breathing and a high school kid we knew, that saw it happen, stopped and shot it in the head with a .22 pistol he had. Then he took it home as my dad did not want to deal with it. That was illeagl of course but a normal practice where I grew up.

-Zeno

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We have at least one squirrel per week fall in our pool during the summer, and drown.

It's pretty sad, especially when I have to pick it up with the skimmer and toss it over the fence.

Kinda icky.

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I bet that one duckling that made it across grows up to be a badass base jumper.

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I'm just wondering who the jerk was that took those pictures, knowing what was going to happen and not saving them.

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The deer got thrown down in the ditch and was still breathing and a high school kid we knew, that saw it happen, stopped and shot it in the head with a .22 pistol he had. Then he took it home as my dad did not want to deal with it. That was illeagl of course but a normal practice where I grew up.

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Why is that illegal?

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as touching as this is, and as glad as i am to here that you are communing with nature, you have no idea how disappointed i was when i saw that this thread was totally safe for work...

peace

john nickle

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I'm just wondering who the jerk was that took those pictures, knowing what was going to happen and not saving them.

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The guy who took the picture was the one who saved them...

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The deer got thrown down in the ditch and was still breathing and a high school kid we knew, that saw it happen, stopped and shot it in the head with a .22 pistol he had. Then he took it home as my dad did not want to deal with it. That was illeagl of course but a normal practice where I grew up.


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Why is that illegal?

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it's an illegal take of a game animal. probably was out of season, etc.

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A game animal killed in an accident (vehicle or otherwise) becomes the property of the state, at least that is law in the state I grew up in. So the legal thing to do is call the state police or sheriffs office etc. and they are suppose to take care of the animal. Few people observed this law however. It was enacted so people will not 'purposely' try and kill animals with a vehicle and then get to keep the dead animal for the food or hide, etc. The law makes little sense but that has never deterred the idiots in the legislator.

By the way, more deer are killed in the U. S. by collisions with motor vehicles than by any other means, including hunting.

-Zeno

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Inspiring topic for another heart-touching Hallmark card. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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The Venetian canals have been home to six baby ducks and their parents for the past few weeks. I go by there occassionally during my walks and feed them crackers.

Baby ducks are cute. http://forums.footballguys.com/forum...efault/wub.gif

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Baby ducks grow really fast. Those Venetian canal ducks are nearly half the size of their mother now. They also seem to be very Vegas-assimilated. I went by yesterday morning at 8:30 am and they were all sleeping. What kind of a bird sleeps at 8:30 in the morning?

I found some new baby ducks (no more than two weeks old) in the Mirage pond connected to the volcano. There seem to be two families with about 8-10 total baby ducks. There's also a couple of strange black water birds which I had never seen before.

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