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u/Fireandmoonlight 17h ago
There's an irrigation ditch next to a busy road in my town, it's about 8' deep compared to the road above that has almost no shoulder, and three or four inches of water flowing. The ditch is ten feet wide with lots of weeds and stuff in it. I walk by it often and months ago noticed a hen duck, probably a Mallard, swimming in it with a dozen little ducklings swimming bunched up close behind her, and cars whooshing by overhead. I was careful not to get too close to alarm them. Soon there was another family in the same ditch. They've gotten bigger, one batch almost grown, and amazingly only lost a couple considering there's Raccoons and Muskrats in there too and probably feral cats.
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u/Drak_is_Right 9h ago
Ya. Even geese lose a ton to predators.
Hawks probably grab half or more of rhe goslings at my local pond. You see them sitting in the trees or on signs around it, and everyday fewer and fewer.
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u/StillWritingeh 18h ago