I loved this! I was blessed enough 4 winters ago to meet my first pair of widgeons. I help rescue wild waterfowl at a local park. They unfortunately fall victim to the catch and release fishing mess that is everywhere. Mostly mallards and mallard hybrid but low and behold my little Stripe&Priss Missy. They stayed the entire winter 3 yrs ago. Left in mid March. The next 3 yrs the female Priss Missy came back alone like clock work. She was tiny but mighty. She did not take any crap from those bigger mallards. I absolutely loved her. This is the first year she didn't come. I did gain 2 green winged teal males! That was a surprise. We named them Lil Finley & Lil Archie. I am in love with waterfowl. Birds in general...but waterfowl are not only super intelligent, they're so funny! Especially the mallards. Such personalities! Thank you for this read! I'm sharing it with my husband. He in the last 3 yrs fell in love with the ducks as well. He said "what did you do to me?". I said "the ducks did that...not me!".
I have been recently introduced to black bellied whistling ducks. They live in Central America and one small portion of Florida. They like to nest in trees, lay their eggs in other duck's nests and they whistle before dawn, throughout the day and into the dusk. It's a lovely sound. https://ebird.org/species/bbwduc/
I loved this! I was blessed enough 4 winters ago to meet my first pair of widgeons. I help rescue wild waterfowl at a local park. They unfortunately fall victim to the catch and release fishing mess that is everywhere. Mostly mallards and mallard hybrid but low and behold my little Stripe&Priss Missy. They stayed the entire winter 3 yrs ago. Left in mid March. The next 3 yrs the female Priss Missy came back alone like clock work. She was tiny but mighty. She did not take any crap from those bigger mallards. I absolutely loved her. This is the first year she didn't come. I did gain 2 green winged teal males! That was a surprise. We named them Lil Finley & Lil Archie. I am in love with waterfowl. Birds in general...but waterfowl are not only super intelligent, they're so funny! Especially the mallards. Such personalities! Thank you for this read! I'm sharing it with my husband. He in the last 3 yrs fell in love with the ducks as well. He said "what did you do to me?". I said "the ducks did that...not me!".
I have been recently introduced to black bellied whistling ducks. They live in Central America and one small portion of Florida. They like to nest in trees, lay their eggs in other duck's nests and they whistle before dawn, throughout the day and into the dusk. It's a lovely sound. https://ebird.org/species/bbwduc/
Love the wigeon exchange scheme 😆
A ring-pull duck - love that idea! I’ll never look at a Wigeon. In the same way again.