Need help identifying thing w/ feathers

[Ducks be us]

I keep thinkin ta myself...Self...When are you gona finally see and hear EVERYTHING

[sportsman450]

anybody else think it's funny that the pictures/evidence are gone now?

[msbigdawg1234]

As for having water around for the woodies,you don't have to have a big body of water. There is not a lake or pond within 4 miles of my house. I have a pair of woodies that have a tree on a creek behind my house and have raised duckling's the last two years. They have been in my parents pool several times. You need to give them to a rescue agancy to mke sure they live. You probally can't return them back to wild and survive now.

[Spoonallard]

Dude,

I think it is a fair assumption that you don't hunt and have not had much experience in the outdoors. The people who are regular members of this forum are avid waterfowl hunters and outdoorsmen. The reactions you have gotten are because the vast majority are also conservationist. They put in untold hours and money doing such things as DU, DW, and other things for the ducks so there will be ducks for our kids and our children's children.

When you come on this forum and ask "What's this thing with feathers" it belittles the ducks and the efforts of all who love them. Do the right thing and contact the MDWFP and let them tell you what to do with them. I don't know if they can be turned back into the wild at this point or not, but the MDWFP will. It will also be teaching your daughter alot more about conservation that having them in the living room.

My 2 cents.

Amennnnnnnnnnnnn!

[jdbuckshot]

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[Denduke]

Misbigdawg1234, I had a similar situation years ago my wife's son came up with 4 little woodies. He said they were walking down the road by his house. I told him he shoulda left them alone. No body of water for miles either. We had a 2 acre pond but just dumping them there didn't make sense. Since the wife always had chickens, ducks, etc. , we put them in a little coup. Three died that night. The one though survived and in 2 months became a pretty drake woody. We released him in the pond where he stayed and 2 weeks later a wild hen got with him and after hanging around for awhile they left. Never saw them again. Maybe somethin got'em. Years later I jumped a pair outa there. Wondered if it was them. You want to condem me go ahead. But lotta you people don't know everything and maybe oughta give somebody the benefit of the doubt sometimes. Wood ducks sometimes nest in hollow trees far from water. ...who knows whether they get to water or ever make it.
Here's a statement from MSU Cares...

Wood ducks require several types of habitat including nesting, rearing, and feeding. They normally nest in natural cavities, usually within one-half mile of a suitable water area. The closer the nest is to water the better, but the nest may be as far as 4 to 5 miles from where the female normally feeds and rests.

[Jeff]

Well, I happen to think it's cool to have WD's running around in the back yard. I too would get excited as any of us other hardcore duck hunters on here I would imagine. Just as excited as I was too see a deer eating corn out of my back yard in New Orleans a year or so ago!!! It is something that just aint supposed to happen. So anyway I think most of you all are going way to hard on this guy. There is no picture, so I am assuming that this is no joke. If you have kids and you want them to see ducks and then they show up in your yard and in your excitement you go and catch some of them to show your kids, I can understand. Granted, I wouldn't have done that, but I can at least see how it could happen. Then everyone goes and jumps on top of this guy instead of maybe pointing out that he has bent the law and go over it with him. I think everyone has probably at some point in their lives been in a postiion where they could have done something like this with something, ducks, beer, heck I don't know. I don't at all agree with what was done, but I think there are better ways to approach this matter than ripping a guys head off. Especially one that has three posts on here and probably doesn't know what he is doing. Everyone has to learn, some the hardway, some the easy.

[Spoonallard]

Well, I happen to think it's cool to have WD's running around in the back yard. I too would get excited as any of us other hardcore duck hunters on here I would imagine. Just as excited as I was too see a deer eating corn out of my back yard in New Orleans a year or so ago!!! It is something that just aint supposed to happen. So anyway I think most of you all are going way to hard on this guy. There is no picture, so I am assuming that this is no joke. If you have kids and you want them to see ducks and then they show up in your yard and in your excitement you go and catch some of them to show your kids, I can understand. Granted, I wouldn't have done that, but I can at least see how it could happen. Then everyone goes and jumps on top of this guy instead of maybe pointing out that he has bent the law and go over it with him. I think everyone has probably at some point in their lives been in a postiion where they could have done something like this with something, ducks, beer, heck I don't know. I don't at all agree with what was done, but I think there are better ways to approach this matter than ripping a guys head off. Especially one that has three posts on here and probably doesn't know what he is doing. Everyone has to learn, some the hardway, some the easy.

oh he had pics of the ducks. The best thing would have been to watch them and see that nothing got to them and maybe see where they were going.Protection from a far as the case may be.
Spoon

[mudsucker]

I keep thinkin ta myself...Self...When are you gona finally see and hear EVERYTHING

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[msbigdawg1234]

[qMisbigdawg1234, I had a similar situation years ago my wife's son came up with 4 little woodies. He said they were walking down the road by his house. I told him he shoulda left them alone. No body of water for miles either. We had a 2 acre pond but just dumping them there didn't make sense. Since the wife always had chickens, ducks, etc. , we put them in a little coup. Three died that night. The one though survived and in 2 months became a pretty drake woody. We released him in the pond where he stayed and 2 weeks later a wild hen got with him and after hanging around for awhile they left. Never saw them again. Maybe somethin got'em. Years later I jumped a pair outa there. Wondered if it was them. You want to condem me go ahead. But lotta you people don't know everything and maybe oughta give somebody the benefit of the doubt sometimes. Wood ducks sometimes nest in hollow trees far from water. ...who knows whether they get to water or ever make it.
Here's a statement from MSU Cares...
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Wait, I ain't condemed anyone. Just said that there did not need to be a body of big water for the woodies. Also to give them to a rescue agency to make sure they have the best chance of survial. This guy may not have realized what he was doing and it is not a good thing.But i have not condemed him for it.[/quote]

[Delta Duck]

ruger0771 you did the right thing, those chicks would not have made it past the first ally cat or coon.

DutchDog must have had a bad morning, I know he is more class than the post he made.

It just shows who are real idiots, He asked a simple question and yall jumped on him calling him moron, idiot, dumb ass.

lipspliter 26th post That's one you can be proud of for a while "turd-cutter".

[Delta Duck]

Oh yea ruger0771 if you want ducks for your kids you should go to the pet store don't rob a nest!

[crow]

Whew, I wuz gonna tell y'all about them mallard ducklings I caught and was gonna paint pink for easter, but not now knowing what a vicious bunch of conservationists y'all are! Sounds like a PETA site!

[Dutch Dog]

the part about him looking for them over the past 3 months rubbed me wrong....then trying to justify it by....Lookie here what I found in my dad's backyard where there is no water around anywhere....

[sportsman450]

ruger0771 you did the right thing

Delta Duck - you are a very respected member of this site, but I have ta disagree with you here. I will however, be more than glad ta admit I'm wrong if Wingman and SB think he did the right thing.

those chicks would not have made it past the first ally cat or coon.

You could say the same thing about any duck in the wild, so I don't think you can say this with any degree of certainty.

Perhaps we responded a bit harshly, but face it >>>----> the guy screwed up!