We have been down a few more times to Crosby Farm park. The water levels have risen there again, they have reclosed the gates leading into the park. The path that skirts the 'upper lake' is flooded and doesnt allow getting to the part of the path right along the upper lake.
We have walked around the little pond on a couple different occasions this week, where we saw the Hoodie duckling Sat., and have not found him again. We hope he is fine and is off into other areas--there is a lot of high water for wading in the area. The pond itself seems pretty open and exposed to me and i think about owls at night that would not bode well for a little hoodie. Though i would imagine the Hoodie would tuck in somewhere more concealed at night. I will let you know if we happen upon him again.. Brian and Denise On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:27 PM Kiki Sonnen <kikison...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes - it is my experience too with Wood Duck families sticking together > for weeks or months on our land on Wells Creek, Goodhue County. The baby > woodies were almost bigger than their mother and still together as a unit. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 3, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Bob Bystrom <robertbystr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have encountered loner hooded merganser ducklings too. However, today > I saw a female with a brood of 1/3-grown young sunning themselves at the > edge of a pond, so apparently family groups also stay together for the long > haul. > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
