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    Canada Goose nest flooded

    Goose nest on our property was flooded last night. I've managed to fish four eggs out of the water. They looked to be partially dry when I first looked out at them. When I went over it seemed some had gone into the water. So not sure how long the under-water ones were that way. I moved all four...
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    Most dangerous time for chickens & ducks?

    Where I live it's mid-summer in a 4-season climate. The locale is mostly residential, with yards, ponds, bushes, woods. I've shepherded geese and duck flocks through the winter & spring, to have them run or fly toward me whenever they see me. Now the geese have left this home for better...
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    Young Canadian Goose with Fishing Line Around Neck and Beak

    A seven-week-old Canadian Goose that hatched on my property has turned up with fishing line in a loose noose around it's neck, twisted once and then apparently looped around it's lower beak. As a result he is unable to stretch his head all the way straight upright, the way they do when drinking...
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    Diving mallards

    There are almost 50 mallards camped out in the pond in front of my apartment complex; I feed them every day. They all look the same - the drakes and hens are all colored like mallards. A percentage of them (10-12) do this diving thing that looks like water ballet! They will hop up in the air...
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    Max length of time for duckling to grow full-length wing

    [Edited to add: Subjects are wild Mallards, although they have been acting tame (only towards people they know). They were born at this pond, have so far never left except to travel back and forth between this and 2 adjacent ponds, and been fed sometimes by humans who know better than to feed...
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