Wood Ducks part II

[Dano]

Checked our boxes and tail cams today. Some interesting pictures of Owls, swallows and a Northern Flicker. In this location we now have 6/10 boxes with eggs and 3 hens are sitting now.


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[Dano]

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[swamper]

Awesome pics. I wish we had woodies up here in the Cariboo.

[Rhyno]

Great pictures, keep'm coming!

[limit time]

Nice pics !

[digger dogger]

Really cool thing you are doing, & great pics.

[Dano]

The trail cams have really made it interesting to check boxes. Always some great shots and up to 600 pictures in a week on some cameras!
And the boxes without eggs have had birds inn and on them for weeks now. We expect 10/10 on this site.
Hope to check another site next weekend, we have 60 boxes out there but no cameras.
Thanks for the comments, this project is a lot of work but it's also a lot of fun.
A great way to spend a few hours outdoors!

[pnbrock]

good effort !!what does the pw stand for ?

[Ozone]

Great shots. Can you explain how you get the top looking down pictures?

[Dano]

PW is for Pitt Waterfowlers.
My dad, Bill Otway, and Richard Trethewey ran a group back in the 70's to the 90's called Pitt Waterfowl Association. We shortened it but kept enough of the name to honour them.

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Pitt Waterfowl Association had hundreds of boxes all over the lower mainland, as a teen I remember checking boxes on the site of the Costco in PoCo as well as the Alouette, Minnikhada, and over on Douglas Island. Chris and I started putting up a few boxes about 6 years ago, we eventually got big enough to have to get our duck hunting friends to help out (mainly with the initial clean up and fix up each year). Chris and I do most of the spot checks, we organize a group check at least once a year.

Pitt Waterfowl also introduced 500 Canada geese into the lower mainland starting in 1972. Some of you here may remember the "Sponsor a Canada Goose" for $10 deal they had. Geese were brought in from the prairies by plane and taken to sites for release. There was an article in the Vancouver Sun with Stewardesses by the crates.
Birds were wing clipped to hold them here for a year and it was assumed they would migrate the next year and come back here to nest. They eventually ended up staying here year around when our winters stopped being bad enough to push them out.

[Dano]

Great shots. Can you explain how you get the top looking down pictures?

We hold our cell phone very tight, set it to use the flash and put it in the hole far enough to snap a picture! Haven't had a hen fly out yet!

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[Foxton Gundogs]

My old stompin' grounds. I grew up in those fields and marshes. Thanks for sharing Dano.

[guest]

Great share Danno!

Such a cool bird , always treasured bagging one of them.

[Dano]

Found an old picture of dad checking a nest box, probably around 1980 along the south Alouette by Trethewey's on 216th. (streak is from a crease....)

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Rich used to host a DU Greenwing day at the 216th street farm. This is my my son and I and it would have been in the mid-80's.

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[Ride Red]

Awesome work Dano and great thread!!! What trail cams are you using? My box has the interest of a black squirrel right now.

[Dano]

We buy cheap reconditioned cameras when they go on sale! Wildview, and Stealth. I have one Cabelas camera too.
Found squirrels in a box back in the '70's and had an owl in one too!
A camera will let you know what's going on, some of our boxes show nothing but ducks have been on and in them for weeks now!

[Foxton Gundogs]

Thanks again Dano I spent a lot of time shooting Teal in the buck brush behind the berry farm at the bottom of old 5th Ave in the late 60s. It's a great thing you you do for the birds, and in bringing back old memories.

[ACB]

Awesome pics. I wish we had woodies up here in the Cariboo.
I don't know if they were woodies but I saw some ducks landing in old snags west of 100 mile at big lake, didn't have any bino's to ID them, if they weren't woodies I don't know what kind of ducks they would have been. They were definitely nesting.