Wood Ducks at Lynden IV

April 7, 2015

This post is the fourth in a series by Junior Grounds Manager Weston Wagner tracking the behavior of wood ducks at Lynden. Read part one here, part two here, and part three here.

April 6th, 2015 – There were five male wood ducks at the nest boxes this morning. The wood ducks are showing more and more activity with each passing day. I didn’t see any females so there is a good possibility that one was occupying a nest box. I didn’t check the nest boxes over the water but I did check the ones in the field. The first box I checked had something in it, and it wasn’t a wood duck.

Photo: Weston Wagner
Eastern screech owl occupying a nest box

It seems as though an eastern screech owl has no problem occupying a nest box designed for a wood duck. I snapped a quick picture and left the owl alone. There are two color variations of eastern screech owls. This particular owl in the picture is the gray morph. My post from March 27th has a red morph eastern screech owl pictured. It’s not what we were expecting to occupy the nest boxes but we will take it.


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