Island in the pond Rod... safest place they can be.
To your first question on the wood ducks, I think there's an art to placing the boxes and I think I remember a thread here on that.
I have a pair nesting under my floating dock. Apparently she built a nest on top of a barrel. I have 2X6 spacers to keep dock up higher from water and I guess she thought that was good enough, but I think they prefer a closed off area such as a nest box provides.
I don't know of any other species in our flyway that will nest off of the ground.
Rod, looks like Mergansers and Goldeneyes will magically place eggs in a WD box occasionally.
Last edited by Snipe; 04/25/22 01:09 AM.
