Monday, July 6, 2009

Brood Drives


Currently we are finishing up nest searching and trapping and starting brood drives. Brood driving is catching ducklings! Expect many cute pictures to follow. We set up a holding pen with too long net leads fanning out from them. Two teams set out and each boat drops a person off to walk the flooded vegetation on the shoreline to flush out the broods. When a brood is flushed the boats launch inflatable kayaks to heard the duckings into the nets.

It's a load of fun, but can be stressful.

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