An update on nesting season for #WoodDuck #AixSponsa #WODU and #HoodedMerganser #LophodytesCucullatus #HOME at Huntley Meadows Park: 4 boxes have hatched out; 5 boxes have clutches that are incubating. Box #7 (pictured) hatched and fledged an estimated 13 #HOME ducklings, leaving 1 egg unhatched.

Another nesting season for #WoodDuck #AixSponsa #WODU and #HoodedMerganser #LophodytesCucullatus #HOME is chugging along at Huntley Meadows Park. We have 4 boxes with clutches incubating, and eggs in another 4 boxes. Box #62 (pictured) was replaced this year, and already has a clutch of 10 eggs, with perhaps more to come. We expect hatching in late April-early May.

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Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), 21st June 2024
es: Pato Joyuyo, fr: Canard Branchu
Union Free School District Lands, New Scotland, New York
Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Mohican & Schaghticoke traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1120mm, 30% crop, 1/400s, f/13, ISO 1250
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Nesting activity in our boxes for #HOME #HoodedMerganser #LophodytesCucullatus and #WODU #WoodDuck #AixSponsa is starting to wind down, with 7 boxes successfully fledged. But we still have 3, maybe more, boxes active.

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Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), 1st October 2022
es: Pato Joyuyo, fr: Canard Branchu
Alewife Brook Reservation, Arlington, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 20% crop, 1/200s, ISO 12800
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I can't decide whether to use a base of BX, #WoDu, 2400, or #TunnelGoons (or something else entirely) for this #ttrpg heartbreaker I'm making, but more importantly I don't have a codename for it to file things under 😤 life is hard

So soon, the nest box season is winding down. I estimate that 14 eggs hatched from this #WODU #WoodDuck #AixSponsa nest in box #60.