The little woman and I were out fencing last night and drove thru some of the pastures we haven't grazed yet to see how the grass was looking. Got down south by an old plum thicket and there was a mulie doe lickin' off a brand new baby!
Of course we idn't have the camera and I wouldn't have took the time to get close enough for a pic anyway, cuz I didn't want him to get "bummed" by his mother.
Then this morning while walking back along a new fence I am building, from putting the clips on, when I walked thru' a patch of buckbrushg that the new fence runns thru, an old mallard hen flew out. I just thot to myself, "she must have a nest."
As I walked back, I checked to see how close the nest might be as I didn't want to run over it and break the eggs. No egss, just two little fuzzy fresh hatched ducklings. Pretty cute, so I moved on and decided to wait a day for her to get her babies to a water hole.
One of the old timers used to say that the farther from water a duck nests, the wetter it's going to be. Welllllll, we must be in for a lot of rain, one of these days , cuz she was almost a quarter of a mile from the nearest water and there dang sure ain't much water in it! :wink:
Of course we idn't have the camera and I wouldn't have took the time to get close enough for a pic anyway, cuz I didn't want him to get "bummed" by his mother.
Then this morning while walking back along a new fence I am building, from putting the clips on, when I walked thru' a patch of buckbrushg that the new fence runns thru, an old mallard hen flew out. I just thot to myself, "she must have a nest."
As I walked back, I checked to see how close the nest might be as I didn't want to run over it and break the eggs. No egss, just two little fuzzy fresh hatched ducklings. Pretty cute, so I moved on and decided to wait a day for her to get her babies to a water hole.
One of the old timers used to say that the farther from water a duck nests, the wetter it's going to be. Welllllll, we must be in for a lot of rain, one of these days , cuz she was almost a quarter of a mile from the nearest water and there dang sure ain't much water in it! :wink: