Pond dreaming is over

EddieWalker · Feb 13, 2017

Any birds still around using your pond?

philbuilt · Feb 13, 2017

No birds that we can see. We wish some wild duck would come and stay but they don't. Every year we will get a pair of geese that will raise there young.

tcreeley · Feb 13, 2017

Ducks that stay head for the rivers- goldeneye, bufflehead - or on the coast red mergansers, scoters, eiders. Once in a while you'll find domestic mallards and black ducks hanging out where a river flows out onto a bay. Winterharbor always has a few. Look in the early spring for pintails and hooded mergansers, mallards, black ducks and wood duck hanging out for a day or two. -Plant some non gmo corn (+ no pesticides) and let it sit to feed them in their migration stop overs. Tall grass is good to for them too in the fall- shelters bugs/worms that they find in the spring. - Most ducks breed in woody areas. Wood ducks nest up in holes. - You can tell which is which by how they rise up off the water. The woody ducks can get airborne almost vertically. The open area ducks need a bit of a runway to get up into the air as they almost seem to run on the water.

Nice pond!

philbuilt · Feb 13, 2017

tcreeley said:
Ducks that stay head for the rivers- goldeneye, bufflehead - or on the coast red mergansers, scoters, eiders. Once in a while you'll find domestic mallards and black ducks hanging out where a river flows out onto a bay. Winterharbor always has a few. Look in the early spring for pintails and hooded mergansers, mallards, black ducks and wood duck hanging out for a day or two. -Plant some non gmo corn (+ no pesticides) and let it sit to feed them in their migration stop overs. Tall grass is good to for them too in the fall- shelters bugs/worms that they find in the spring. - Most ducks breed in woody areas. Wood ducks nest up in holes. - You can tell which is which by how they rise up off the water. The woody ducks can get airborne almost vertically. The open area ducks need a bit of a runway to get up into the air as they almost seem to run on the water.

Nice pond!

Thank you for the info.