Posted on 11/14/2022 5:01:14 PM PST by Twotone
Wildlife photographer Brent Cizek decided to visit north Minnesota lakes for some photos. He was hoping to capture some intimate scenes of animals in their natural habitat. But in the end, Brent had no idea how intimate he would get.
“Well, it wasn’t the greatest idea as it was quite windy that day and the waves were tossing my boat around in any direction that it wanted to,” Cizek told MNN. “I decided to carry on, knowing that it wasn’t likely that I would see anything, much less be able to take a photograph with the choppy water.”
After a ride with his tiny boat on the lake, he then steer it at the shoreline. In the next moment he spotted what seemed to be a bevy. When he edged nearer he could see there was a mother duck and few ducklings. Only that the few turned into few dozen.
“The closer that I got, the more my heart started racing as I had never witnessed something like this before,” the photographer explained. “As I got closer, the group decided to start swimming back out into the lake, and ‘Mama Merganser’ got out front and all of the chick got in tow. I knew that this was going to be a once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunity, so I immediately tried to fire off as many shots as I could, just hoping that one of the photos would turn out.”
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I think I saw wild turkeys with some babies once. I can’t remember if they were babies, but they were pretty adorable. Too bad they grow up to be vicious little monsters.
Now what does this have to do with politics?/s
I’ve raised ducks. And I can tell you that is not one family. A single duck mother can hatch maybe as many as twelve ducklings if everything goes perfectly. So this mother has six plus families here. Maybe she went for a swim and the kids from a much larger group just followed her. Not sure how they imprinted on just this one mother duck. Fortunately ducks aren’t mammals. A mammal can’t do it because she would need to breast feed them. A hawk or eagle couldn’t do it because she would need to hunt for all of them. But ducklings forage almost from the first day. They eat insects and seeds. So they don’t look to their mother or anything but protection.
It’s remarkable how the chicks know to line up single file and stay with the group. I didn’t realize some Mother Ducks will allow a Nanny Duck to take their brood out for a swim.
Who knows how or even if the chicks will end up with their real Mothers. ..Maybe some of them have been abb-DUCK-ted!!
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1-800-DUCK-NANNY
Doing my best here...
The democrats would have had that mom duck abort 55 of the baby ducks before birth, and then have the last one aborted at birth.
Somebody wanted politics inserted into this discussion, so, there you have it.
Merganser....typical behavior.
It’s not a mom duck. It’s an egg producing youth leader.
In all fairness, trigger words set me off too. “Mom”
rabbits have nothing on this quack...
I’d say a restaurant is paying off mom with “duck gold” for every chick she brings to the back door of their kitchen.
We raise a few turkeys and had 1 hen that just hatched a brood of 8. That same day I had 2 chicken hens that had hatched out a total of 18 chicks.
The next day the neighbor cut his alfalfa field and the 2 chicken hens got chopped up so i had these 18, day old chicks. I decided to put them with that turkey hen and she took right to them
With her huge wingspan she would just tuck them all under her.
The only problem is turkeys dont constantly scratch and peck so her new brood of chickens would get separated from her by about 10 feet while she just wandered around. Then they would look up and run back to her.
She raised them all.
This spring we had a yearling buck on the property with his companion turkey. They traveled together for some time.
I was notified that a small buck was taken on the property last week. I wonder...
Can such a late season hatch survive the Minnesota cold & snow that is coming?
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