New housing going up in my neighborhood

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

Generally I would be opposed to such a thing.

However, I like the neighbors that live in these.

[swancaller]

What no snake guard??

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

just getting ready to go cut the flashing.

[BluePrints]

Good job, the new homeowners will thank you for it.

We have somewhere around 100 boxes to freshen up & get ready for the spring. You NC boys should thank us since you get to shoot all our woodies .

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

thanks, but the way I got it figured, my out back woodies, are residents and stay here all year, I see them all year anyway.

going to put up the gaurds and fresh cedar bedding now.

[BluePrints]

You would think they would stay here too. The feds came in a few years ago & banded a bunch of woodies around us. Something like 90% of them were shot in NC.

It's all good though since I'm sure theres the same guys in PA that send there ducks down to us.

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

gaurds up, bedding in, ready for residents.

saw about 12 woodrows walking back to the boxes just now.

I killed a banded woody in VA last year late in the season was banded in Maine.

[#1Gaffman]

Okay, While we have this thread going, ill ask some questions that i have been wondering.


Snake gaurds? coon gaurds? I have read that making the poles out of PVC will stop the bandits?? Never thought about flash gaurd?

I have got some internet diagrams to make them, looks like a simple ordeal. Anything else you guys think we should do? I have heard that putting something in the boxe's for the nest is good?

I am hoping to make up about 20 of them and put them near my woody spot.

Any help is awesome,

thanks shane.

[Glenn W]

That's too cool Jay-- Wood Ducks on Hatteras Island. Can't say I've ever seen one, but then again, never really looked for em. Is there a fair number in sweet water Swamps around Buxton Woods?

[matey1]

Capt. Jay, do you get owls nesting in the boxes before the woodies do? i usually clean ours out up this way in early feb and just about everyone will have a screech owl in them. some with babies and some with 2 or 3 adults. i just usually shuffle them to one side and clean out the other thenshuffle them into the new chips and clean out the other side. they don't seem to mind.i will try to take my camera along when i do the last i have left to get a few shots.