West Nest Jump Day 2019

So why another wood duck jump day video? Well, this one has cute ducklings and interesting behavior ... oh, wait, I guess they all have that. But it also has - a duckling with an eggshell on his head - several Slo-Mo segments - a good story - improved editing (I hope) - a nice ending.
Enjoy! (For more videos, live cameras, and information about the ducks see birdsgv.com)

[@nevermind5321]

The Merganser chick with his bushy little head is my favorite. So happy he’s accepted as part of the family.

[@seniorcraig]

Loved this video - thank you. Carefully done. No ghastly background noise. I learned a lot about ducks and your comments are hilarious.

[@7kabel7]

Thanks! You might like a couple of my recent videos too: Goblin Attacks! and Woodie's First Day. See birdsgv.com

[@nevermind5321]

I really enjoyed this beautifully done video! No music just the natural sounds of the family of ducks! Thank you so much, it brightens my day to watch this. 🐣🐥🦆🐧 I love all kinds of birds!

[@nevermind5321]

So adorable, I loved the video. Thank you for sharing!

[@PacoOtis]

Bravo! Thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!

[@v.gorski3050]

Beautifully done video ! And yes..... it is cute but also educational. The persistence of Mom to get them out of the nest, and to keep the other adult duck away from her group was enjoyable to watch ! TY for posting this !

[@АлександраАржакова-з4ш]

Очень заботливая мама🙏🙌👍

[@metaldetectingengland]

WOW !!! Thank-you for an amazing moment in time !😃👍I worked for 11 Years as a gardener in a large manor house ..and saw much of the wonders of nature to numerous to mention ..but I never saw this ! ❤

[@gina3422]

A huge fan of wildlife videos but have never viewed one on ducks and frankly knew very little about them until this most impressive video I just happened across. Every moment had me mesmerized. A great big thank you for the smiles and the education. Now if you'll pardon me, I have a subscribe button to push!

[@7kabel7]

Thanks for the comment. It's good to know that the videos are appreciated. Did you go to my web site? This year's duck families are nesting now and there are live cameras. If you sign up for the blog you'll get postings via email when something interesting is going to happen. See birdsgv.com

[@evahorvath8135]

Beautiful cute animals!❤

[@locknathsingh8886]

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.

[@chikamuna6832]

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[@cynthiagonzales9131]

So Neat!! Didn't know they raise other ducks babies. Really learnt a lot. Thank you,

[@7kabel7]

You are welcome! Thanks for your comments. You asked if I attempt to hatch eggs left behind: answer is no. You will find more information including an explanation of that answer at birdsgv.com. Scroll down and click the "Ducks Info" topic.

[@at243]

@@7kabel7 Where did the merganser's egg came from?!

[@7kabel7]

Ayoub, Hooded Mergansers and Wood Ducks will lay eggs in each other's nests. More about this behavior is here: birdsgv.com/duckinfo.html#content4-2d

[@fireesh9789]

Thank you! Absolutely amazing to watch!

[@haven_lady675]

I like that two different types of water fowl lay their eggs in each other's nest without getting rid of the eggs. Unlike the cuckoo...

[@Anne-bz1cl]

Thanks for sharing su a beautiful story

[@cliffcampbell8827]

I always thought about attaching an old bed sheet (or something similar) to two lengths of wood (one at each end). Then attaching one of the lengths to the bottom of the nest box and the other end to the ground a few feet away from the box so the little ones would have a slide to the ground instead of a straight down plummet. Maybe just one length to attach to the box and stake the two corners into the ground so they don't impact the board at the end of the slide. Best time to do it would be when the hen is gone but after they have hatched. Or have the sheet attached to the tree just under the box and a trap door. Pull the string and they all get to slide all at once. This would limit the time the hen is on the ground waiting for the stragglers still in the box. The sooner they get to water, the safer they'll be.

[@marcoscatalao3256]

Olá! Estou no BRASIL e amei o vídeo; sou apaixonado por Carolinos e os crio com muito sucesso no BRASIL. Obrigado por compartilhar essa maravilha de ver mamãe Carolina num momento tão intimo. Muito emocionante. Obrigado... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤🙏

[@Funsoul8]

Yes especially on my birthday 5/12/. Lol thank you for sharing....xoxo

[@jindo333333]

15:49 Yes. She is a good mommy!

[@arnycarasco3654]

I love duck 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 🦆🦆🦆🦆 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

[@DonKJB]

Thank You for Sharing!!!!!

[@ajeetdash8239]

Awesome coverage

[@peterrabbit1194]

Good job

[@karolcarvalho199]

That's some high quality content I'm glad I found!

[@7kabel7]

Thanks! For more information, more videos, and live cameras (in the spring) see birdsgv.com

[@mariooliveiraneto2900]

very good this video! Happy birthday

[@daniellehner1383]

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@chikamuna6832]

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[@georgepelekoudis]

That was amazing, and a huge cuteness overload. Why another duck jump day video? Why not? We all love ducks :) Take care!

[@carlossuriel5671]

Beautiful!!!

[@davidgivins4203]

She can count!

[@HSVLOGS892]

Video was supreb i really enjoyed and watching one by one from ur channel

[@annwithaplan9766]

At the very end, after you panned back out I could see another baby duck floating backwards again.

[@moongr3671]

So precious 💖 omg

[@ongta1265]

Thank you for an excellent video. Ah, MSP airport, your home must be close to Richfield Minnehaha creek. I lived around Minneapolis and later Blaine Minnesota 1981-2016, Washington state is my new home! 👍

[@chikamuna6832]

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[@SaltyGoose1]

Awesome video. Thanks.

[@wasaykhan8174]

Oh my lovely mom where are you ,I love you so much ,oh Allah I ask for my mom give bless her

[@angelicapezzino9411]

AWE such a cute little video! Thank you so much for sharing! We just got a duck nesting box and are finding a good location on our property to place it. I hope one day to catch such a beautiful occurrence. What camera did you use both inside and outside the box?

[@7kabel7]

Thanks for your comment. If you go to my web page you will find live cameras (starting up again a couple of months from now), a blog, more videos and photos, and ... the answer to your question. For that, scroll down and use the "Ducks Info" link. birdsgv.com

[@aliecarey]

Great video! At 5:59 it seems like the duckling on the outermost right notices the camera😆 (probably a bug) but funny nonetheless 🐣

[@cmh3260]

Yeah it's the future Engineer😁

[@aliecarey]

@@cmh3260 lol 😄

[@hancelmelanis]

And they live happily ever after! 😁

[@reynalarios9638]

La madre es totalmente firme. Y ellos deben entrenarse para vivir en todo terreno. 😲

[@chikamuna6832]

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[@carmenvillanueva5767]

Traducir las explicaciones ,me gustan estos videos ,parece que solo los poneis para vuestros paisanos !

[@BillyAlabama]

The shells are a rich source of calcium.

[@tahirqureshi1643]

Amazing 😍

[@jinnmallik5459]

Well Enjoyed. Subscribed.

[@shaponshaan8645]

Nice video 😍

[@ariframdani3084]

Nice video

[@JyttesTrailCamera]

What a great video! So interesting. I'm not familiar with any of these duck breeds though. Will the little merganser know 'who he is' when he grows up, I wonder?

[@7kabel7]

Thanks! And a good question - I like it! Yes the hooded merganser will grow up to be a merganser with no problems and even as ducklings they are different. For example wood ducks feed by dabbling at the surface but little mergansers will also dive for food. Similarly, if they sense danger wood duck ducklings will "run" along the surface to get away whereas merganser ducklings will dive and swim. But they both consider their mom, whoever she is: wood duck or merganser, to be their protector and guide and will stay with her for about 2 months. The behavior where one duck will put eggs in another's nest is called "dumping". It is extremely common for wood ducks: one hen lays only about a dozen eggs but much larger broods are typical. Since hooded mergansers and wood ducks have identical incubation times and very similar habits, they have learned that they can dump in each other's nests even though they are different species. For more about this and other wood duck behavior go to birdsgv.com and scroll down, then click the "Ducks Info" link.

[@JyttesTrailCamera]

@@7kabel7 This is all mighty interesting. Thanks. I think I'll have a look at birdsgv :)

[@nadeemmustafa6450]

Beautiful video 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰👍👍👍

[@ester2861]

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[@jefflong8449]

I see a merganser in that batch,haha,dont letnthem take over the nest boxes

[@vijaymandore2030]

Great MommaDuck, Great video. But why is the video mute?

[@7kabel7]

It's not mute. During the opening title there is piano accompaniment and then (as usual for my videos) the rest is natural sounds as recorded by the cameras. Sometimes the ducks/ducklings are quiet for a short time, but there's lots of sound all of the way through. I just now tried it and it played normally for me.

[@7kabel7]

One thought: the video does have a few freeze-frame (still image) zooms that have no audio for a few seconds- perhaps that is what you meant.

[@fgjs904]

Where do those ducklings sleep the first night after they are grounded and for how long it takes time for them to start eating after hatching

[@7kabel7]

At night the mother duck shelters the tiny ducklings under her body and wings while hidden in tall grass or brush near the water. She takes care of them for about 2 months. A duck does not feed her young; she takes them to where food is and they feed themselves, starting immediately after they leave. Here's a short video of them. birdsgv.com/videos.html#youtube2-r

[@texasfishing101]

SO CUTE

[@sconsonYID]

When the other ducks come over to watch the ducklings leaving the nest, what are they doing? Why does the mum duck threaten them away? Are they trying to steal/eat the ducklings?

[@7kabel7]

A good question. Ducks eat plants and bugs; they don't eat other ducks so that's not it. They also don't steal ducklings from each other. So I'd say 1) curiosity, 2) a hen's instinct to care for ducklings (the hen was approaching, the male was mostly following along), and 3) a male duck wants to mate with the female. The second question is easier: another hen may be hostile to ducklings that are not from her own brood and male ducks have been known to kill ducklings to get at the female for mating Thus the hen has an instinct to threaten and repel ANY duck that approaches her ducklings.

[@sarifhidayat4235]

Weh bisa terbang 🤣

[@TaraTanaka]

Excellent filming and editing! Your text was so perfect. We have WD boxes and have had Mergansers use them 2 years, and have had them lay eggs in the WD boxes that WDs were incubating, but none have hatched that were incubated by WD's. We had a WD lay eggs in a box that was taken over by a Black-bellied Whisting Duck and two WD's jumped with the BBWD babies, however a few days later I saw the family and the WD's weren't with them :-(. I've thought about putting a camera in the box, but I'm worried about the wi-fi harming them that close. I see something on the ground - is your camera hard-wired?

[@7kabel7]

Thanks Tara! And an interesting story about your ducks. If you're curious, my birdsgv.com site has an information page that includes descriptions of the cameras. They are wifi as you thought and I sure hope that isn't harmful but I guess we won't know for sure until more time has made that more clear. The grey box on the ground by the post is where a buried low voltage cable comes up to provide power to the camera.

[@TaraTanaka]

@@7kabel7 Thanks for the info - I'll check out your page. I don't know if there's any way to turn off the wi-fi in the box when you're not watching it - that would help a lot, just like turning off wi-fi at night in your home while you sleep. Thanks again for the wonderful "duckumentary."

[@1chefcutleryknives]

How do the mother duck know that no ducking left inside the nest?

[@7kabel7]

When she is calling them they respond by peeping loudly. They stop when with her. When she does not hear any more peeping from the nest she knows that they are all out. For more information please see my web site at birdsgv.com and use the "Ducks Info" button.

[@jeffschmidt5799]

Awesome

[@erikb892]

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[@basantasubedi2921]

Do you save those sadly not strong enough to move ducklings??

[@7kabel7]

So many people ask about that (some much less nicely than your question) that I have created a page about it. You'll find lots if information on my web site: birdsgv.com, but here's a direct link to the page that answers your question: www.birdsgv.com/lastduckling.html

[@chrismalzahn8645]

Anybody else find themselves rooting for the shell to come off ?

[@SGorath]

I assume once the ducklings jump out they never return.

[@7kabel7]

Yes, they hatch, spend one night in the nest, then they leave and never return. For lots of information about that and other interesting behavior see the "Ducks Info" link at the bottom of my home page: birdsgv.com

[@georgegoertzen4723]

poor wee Ugly Duckling! wait. i'm not an ugly duckling! I'm not a duck at all. right? wonder about the first imprinting of this little guy?

[@haitvhalong]

Hay nhở...🤩🤩🤩

[@H_savv4848]

6:57 SHES a queen not a king

[@7kabel7]

Most certainly, but it is the ducklings who are playing the game and she is the mountain, not the king. Perhaps what is missing is cultural: "King of the Mountain" is the name of a game played by children ( and also baby goats) where they compete with friendly pushing to see who can stay at the top of a small mound.

[@nevermind5321]

Why so serious? Have respect troll.

[@77Jesus-saves]

you could have helped those 2 but Sadly you decided not to? hmm ..why was that?🙏💕💖🙏

[@7kabel7]

Yes it is sad. Here are answers to your question: birdsgv.com/lastduckling.html

[@Love.Cook_Sanji]

I've always wondered how do those small fledgling go back to their nest. I ve seen them come out but how do they go back in ? anyone? thank you.

[@7kabel7]

They don't! They leave the nest the day after they hatch and never return. The mother takes them to where there is food during the day (they feed themselves) and shelters them under her wings at night, hiding in brush or tall grass near the water. For more information go to my web site, birdsgv.com, scroll down, and select the "Ducks Info" button.

[@ocaphoenix5347]

Just delightful - many thx! where is this?

[@7kabel7]

Thanks for your comment. The location is Golden Valley, MN which is a suburb of Minneapolis. birdsgv.com

[@JoseFernandez-zt2ry]

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[@Joe-li3zj]

How could she keep 17 ducklings from predators?

[@7kabel7]

They stay close, she shelters them in a hidden place at night, and ... many end up as fish food, gull food, turtle food, fox food, etc. The survival rate is around 50% (or less) depending on who you ask. This is one reason they have so many.

[@celldiego4052]

Fofo

[@HSVLOGS892]

2 ducklings which were not hatched late and not as strong to jump where are they u should have to rescue them but u left them to die very sad😢😢

[@7kabel7]

Many people have expressed their sadness about ducklings that hatch late, as shown and as mentioned in several of my videos. (I feel that way too.) Because of this I created an information page about these ducklings. Please see: birdsgv.com/lastduckling.html

[@Fran_Tluanga]

@@7kabel7 whatever, it is impossible for me to be okay knowing that there are ducklings alive in the box just waiting to die..if the boxes were less deeper they could have managed to get out along with others.

[@7kabel7]

It is that way for me too. As you wrote, it is impossible to simply be "okay" with it. It is a sad thing. It is harsh. It is also a part of nature that happens in perhaps a thousand wood duck nests every year, whether there is a camera there to show it or not. The depth of the nest box is not the problem ... the problem is EVERYTHING that a duckling has to do! A duckling needs about 24 hours to get strong. So if one hatches 12 hours later than the others it will not be strong when they leave. It's not strong enough to even stand up for very long, it's not strong enough to push its way through thick grass or climb over roots and logs to follow the mother, it's not strong enough to swim. So even if it could get out a late duckling would just lie in the grass as the others moved away. And so, they die. That's not okay with anyone who has a heart and sympathy for little ones, but even so, that is what happens.

[@Fran_Tluanga]

@@7kabel7 i agree.. nature can be cruel..but i personally cannot let nature take its own course, i would find myself getting into trouble everytime trying to intervene. At least here theres no such rules about whats not allowed to raise. i have raised mallards thrice. sadly though wood ducks are not present here. It's also sad that many of the ducklings wont make it to adult stage.

[@Fran_Tluanga]

@@7kabel7 there might still be a chance that the left ducklings managed to venture out on their own after sometime. Have you noticed such incidents?

[@conqueeftador913]

She's good in math

[@semofls5706]

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[@valmacoffey-mcclean6910]

what happened to the 2 late hatches.

[@7kabel7]

So many people have asked this that I created a page about it: birdsgv.com/lastduckling.html For more general information (and a link to that page too) please see my web site, birdsgv.com, and use the "Ducks Info" link.

[@asterlofts1565]

What happened to the 2 chicks that were unable to leave the nest? Did they die?

[@7kabel7]

Please see this page: birdsgv.com/lastduckling.html

[@asterlofts1565]

@@7kabel7 Thanks.

[@sakusuzi9031]

Once they have come out of the nest, don't they come back to the nest? Do they live near the pond or river?

[@7kabel7]

They're in the nest for only a day or so and they never return. Once they leave the ducklings are sheltered by the hen's wings at night (until they are bigger) hiding in grass or brush on the bank. She leads them to good places for food during the day. They feed themselves. Sometimes they stay nearby for a while, but most often they don't. I think they often end up downstream from here where there is a lake. More info: birdsgv.com

[@sakusuzi9031]

@@7kabel7 thank you

[@НаташаБобровских]

Мать года!

[@mfsarwar001]

What is the pole on which the nest is built? Should it be a special type placed at a specific location?

[@7kabel7]

It's a metal tube left over from somewhere - nothing special. Inside is a another pipe, like the kind used for railings, that is about 5 feet long and pounded about 2 feet into the ground. That pipe stays in the ground year-round. The outer tube stays attached (bolted) to the nest box. When the ducks are done in late spring the whole thing is lifted off and stored. Nest boxes are most often used by wood ducks when near (within sight of) water. They can be 5 feet or dozens of feet above the ground. It's a good thing to use a barrier to prevent climbing predators (cats, raccoons, etc.) from getting up to the nest; however in the wild nests within hollow trees are successful even without a barrier.

[@Hmoo424]

All of the birds babies are ugly when they are young except ducks and chickens they are cute and fuzzy.

[@gurseldegerli9504]

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[@prameswara1123]

wow 17.......

[@Fran_Tluanga]

i find no logic for the excessive depth of the nest. Even in nature, ducks wont lay eggs in such too deep holes. how will the ducklings jump out..there wont be net mesh like in these boxes. make it less deep even with the mesh. Its a real struggle and timeb waste for ducklings

[@7kabel7]

Many ducks such as mallards do nest right on the ground but wood ducks are different. They actually DO nest in deep holes. In the wild they nest in tree hollows and after hatching the ducklings may have to climb up as much as 6 feet inside the tree to get up to the opening high above (in my nest boxes they have to climb about 10 inches). They are equipped with very sharp toenails and well developed hopping and balancing ability to do that. In a hollow tree the wood is rough and their toenails can dig in. In a human-made nest box constructed from smooth boards they need something to grip. One good choice is to make many shallow cuts across the board with a saw. Another is to attach mesh. A wood duck will not use a nest with a low door. She requires the nest opening to be up above as her instinctive way to keep the eggs and ducklings away from reach-in predators such as raccoons. The nest has to be deep enough so a raccoon cannot reach the eggs or ducklings and that instinct persists even though she is in a human-made nest box with a raccoon barrier on the pole. She doesn't know or understand that. She simply won't use a nest with a low door.

[@tomzeman5964]

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[@Shah_husain]

what a site

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[@China.520]

the door so small and so high, big big mistake.

[@7kabel7]

The door must be just the right size or the duck will not use the nest. The height is actually much less than what they use if nesting in a tree instead of a human-made box. If you want to understand please see this information: birdsgv.com/duckinfo.html#content4-2b