➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[FortCluck]

Blue Jay baby

Unfortunately the babies were gone yesterday. The mother and father were also not in sight..

Did they leave the nest or do you think a predator got them?

 

[R2elk]

Did they leave the nest or do you think a predator got them?

They were just starting to grow their flight feathers on the 2nd. I highly doubt that they could have left the nest on their own by the 3rd.

 

[R2elk]

I heard footsteps on the roof this morning. When I went out to do the rounds, I found this.

Wild turkey hen

 

[NanaKat]

You have a sod roof?

This determined mother has her nest within 5 feet of the gravel shoulder of the two lane highway in front of our house. That is gravel in the grass around her.

Yesterday the temperatures reached 100 so she simply stood over her eggs to shade them.

 

[R2elk]

You have a sod roof?

This determined mother has her nest within 5 feet of the gravel shoulder of the two lane highway in front of our house. That is gravel in the grass around her.
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Yesterday the temperatures reached 100 so she simply stood over her eggs to shade them.

That is a typical nest site for a Killdeer. I had one try to nest in the garden one year. She laid two eggs on the bare ground but abandoned them when me being around the garden became too much for her.

 

[NanaKat]

I heard footsteps on the roof this morning. When I went out to do the rounds, I found this.

Wild turkey hen

That is a typical nest site for a Killdeer. I had one try to nest in the garden one year. She laid two eggs on the bare ground but abandoned them when me being around the garden became too much for her.

Yes, her nest is 10 feet from our driveway and cars speed past on the highway. She doesn't mind the cars, but we dare not get close with the lawn mower or she fakes a broken wing and leads us away. We just leave her be Scoping her our with binoculars...there may be three eggs in the nest. We often have Killdeer with their babies in the pastures.

 

[Kiki]

Yes, her nest is 10 feet from our driveway and cars speed past on the highway. She doesn't mind the cars, but we dare not get close with the lawn mower or she fakes a broken wing and leads us away. We just leave her be Scoping her our with binoculars...there may be three eggs in the nest. We often have Killdeer with their babies in the pastures.

 

[R2elk]

Yes, her nest is 10 feet from our driveway and cars speed past on the highway. She doesn't mind the cars, but we dare not get close with the lawn mower or she fakes a broken wing and leads us away. We just leave her be Scoping her our with binoculars...there may be three eggs in the nest. We often have Killdeer with their babies in the pastures.

Of all the birds that I have seen, I think Killdeer do the very best broken wing of all of them.

 

[NanaKat]

Right back at you!

Sorry I missed the yoga party poll. Wow that went big fast!
Yes, I do have yoga pants ...but I don't wear them outside.

 

[Kiki]

Right back at you!

Sorry I missed the yoga party poll. Wow that went big fast!
Yes, I do have yoga pants ...but I don't wear them outside.

This Friday we are having a kitchen party.
Wear an apron and cook something.