After several hours of convincing mama to bring babies up to eat, we were able to swipe 1 baby.
The bad news is a few days ago there were 3 baby ducklings, last night there were only 2. Then a neighbor said last weekend he saw 4 babies. So I think cats or turtles have gotten a couple so far...
Tried the bread too... the ducklings won't come out. That pond is packed with turtles and I don't think they will survive long if I don't catch them when they are that small.
Ok, so I had 2 ducks sitting on nest... after weeks of hunting we found one nest, one duck.. and then she quit sitting as all the ducklings died before hatch
Couldn't find duck #2, in fact she totally stopped coming up to our shore to eat. (We have a shared 2 acre pond)
Then yesterday she...