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Saw something I'd never seen before.

Jinglebob

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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:
 

Northern Rancher

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My buddy found a pair of fresh dropped twin whitetails the other day-right out in the middle of an open pasture. I haven't found a duck nest in years-when I was a kid they used to nest in the road ditches-back then we had millions of ducks now it's more geese are the plague in the fall.
 

Hanta Yo

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Montana Cowgurl and I went fencing today, brought all the cameras with us and didn't see a thing :cry2: Maybe tomorrow when we go back to finish we can find something...the elk love the pasture we are fencing on now...hoping to find some babies to take pics of 8)
 

Manitoba_Rancher

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We are fencing right now too and Im seeing lots of white tail does with calves. Seen one the other day with 3 tagging along behind here. Didnt have the camera with me to take a picture. :roll:

JB if that was true then we should be in for a pile of rain because some ducks are nesting a few miles from nearest water hole..... :shock: I ve seen piles of baby "gooses" on our damn we have for watering cattle.
 

Soapweed

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Jinglebob said:
Manitoba_Rancher said:
I ve seen piles of baby "gooses" on our damn we have for watering cattle.

Soooo, if you use it for watering cattle, why do you cuss it? :?



:wink:

A lot of times Canadians put an extra letter after a word, but usually it's "a" instead of "n". :wink: :)
 

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