The other day I saw - for the first time this year - Wood Ducks
perched on house roofs and today the first of the year perched
on a chimney.
Checking our local records, 90% of the observations of them on
roofs or chimneys are in the 6 weeks centred on August, which
corresponds with the start of their breeding. Some of these
records are from parts of Bayside where they are very rarely
seen.
My hunch is that they are using chimneys for nesting. There are
not many good tree hollows around here and the few Wood Duck
nests that we have located have been in chimney-like tree
stumps.
To repeat a question I asked some time ago, does anyone know of
confirmed records of Wood Ducks using chimneys as nest sites ?
Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
Melbourne
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