I tried to post this in status update but it won’t let me post a picture again so I will post this here. Just to the left of the hummingbird feeder you can see a hummingbird getting sugar water. I don’t know how many hummingbirds we have but I see a lot coming and going. I was making some strawberry jello and saw the hummingbird out the window. Watching nature is better than smoking.
Does your turtle have a boyfriend? Those eggs will not hatch if she does not have a boyfriend.
Let me tell you one of my "stories"... When I moved from New York to South Carolina, I wanted ducks. So, off I went to the feed store. I thought feed stores only sold mallards, and to me, all babies looked the same in the duck department. Animals always need companionship is the way I see it, so I got two ducklings. They were absolutely adorable, and I raised them to adulthood. As they started to feather out into adulthood though, I found out that I actually had purchased two Muscovy's, rather than two Mallards. That was Lesson #1.
Well, one morning, I went outside, and there were eggs in a nest that had been built pretty quick in one day. As time went by, I thought how cool it was that both the male and female were sharing the burdensome task of "setting" on the eggs, in order for them to hatch. Days went by, and the pile of eggs got bigger and bigger and bigger, until there was a giant pyramid of eggs in that nest. Then, I started noticing that both ducks were arguing as to who was going to set on the eggs. I would go outside to check them, and both would be setting side by side, slanted, on this giant pile of eggs. Well, it turned out that I had two females. That was Lesson #2 for this city girl gone country.
It was heartbreaking to take the eggs away from them, but there was no way those eggs would have hatched without a male around. There was no way those two females were going to abandon that nest either. Ducks, like turtles, will lay eggs, but the eggs will not hatch out if they are not fertilized.
Shortly afterwards, a friend told me about a pond that had other Muscovy Ducks in it, so I packed them up and drove them to the pond, releasing them to be in an environment where they could do what nature was calling for them to do - reproduce. My last lesson to be learned about the life of ducks.
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Giulia , that was a long time ago, 44 years to be exact. Now, I can recognize a Wood Duck, otherwise known as a Summer Duck. Found this little lady along with four others flying around in the backyard one morning last week. My husband said they were looking for a tree to nest in. They nest in tree holes way up in a tree. The colors on these ducks are absolutely beautiful. You've got to pull them up on the internet to see their colors, but here is a shot of one of them.
Legend , that video on the mating dance was so cool!!!!
So the little girl across the street stole your turtle, then she stole fish out of your pond to feed it????? Good grief!!!!
Raccoons can really tear up a place. My husband had a friend who raised a raccoon from a baby. One day the family went off on a day trip, and when they returned, their house was all torn up. They thought someone had come in and robbed the place. His friend called the law to report the robbery, and by the time the cops left, his friend ended up with a hefty fine from the game warden for having a raccoon in captivity. The raccoon left no cabinet doors unopened. hahahahaha
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