Posted By: WOODSNUT
Quack me up - 05/25/12 12:45 AM
I have heard of it happening but never seen it till today. Had a call for noises in a chimney and it has stopped but the caller wanted it checked any way. So I went and did a Inspection and found a female woodduck dead in the chimney. Sounds like a chimney cap in my near future..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkRoclwXic8&feature=youtube_gdata_player. Here's one I got the other day . I get a few ducks every year . Even got a drake mallard one time
There are bunch of cavity nesting ducks:
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Wood Duck
I once heard of a mallard in a chimney, but don't completely trust the source. Or maybe it somehow flew down it and got stuck.
Matt
Mallards nest up off the ground to . I've seen them in howel trees 12' off the ground . Last year I seen a hen mallard nest in the attic of a two story condo
Posted By: Barehunter
Re: Quack me up - 05/25/12 01:59 AM
Several years ago I had a wood duck come down my chimney and go thru the pipe and into my wood heater!
Posted By: NE Wildlife
Re: Quack me up - 05/25/12 02:40 AM
One of my first calls was a merganser in a basement!
Came down through the chimney!
Must of been a hooded merganser . Sometimes I see them using my wood duck houses
Ducks, doves, owls, birds, bats and squirrels.
Posted By: trapperpaw
Re: Quack me up - 05/25/12 03:13 PM
Thats not funny Lt. Winkelmann is still sensitive about that. Of course he is happy she is gone or he would never have met his wife and live happily ever after.
Posted By: BigBob
Re: Quack me up - 05/25/12 09:00 PM
I've seen them in howel trees
??? Did you mean HOLLOW trees?
No there howel where I come from .
You know that you've reached the top of your game when people bring up your name and you haven't even posted! And for your information, Mr. Brooker, I never would go out with a pig. ( But my wife would; she even married one )