Screech Owls love Wood Duck boxes.

About 1/3 of our Wood Duck boxes have Screech Owls in them. I stick a little camera in the hole and take a picture, before I open the door. If there's an Owl in there, I leave it for the Owl. Scat on the outside indicated a Screech Owl was using it. Couldn't see in the dark box, so opened up the side, the Screech Owl was sitting there. Quickly shut the door and left it alone. Will check again in a few weeks. If it's not  in there, will clean it out and put fresh cedar chips in, for cleanliness, to prevent mites, for mating Owls, or Ducks.

 

Ready for the Wood Ducks

 

Time to clean out the Wood Duck boxes. This one had a successful hatch, the flattened egg shells indicate. Then another duck laid more eggs later, but they didn't hatch. Then a Screech Owl occupied it. Cleaned out, with new Cedar chips, ready for a new breeding pair..

Happy President's Day

 

While George Washington was an avid turkey hunter, Abraham Lincoln shot a turkey a few days before his 8th birthday February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky and never hunted again. turkeydog.org

William Frank Hanenkrat, on turkey hunting in 1921, Appomattox County, VA

"Most game thinks that every man is a tall stump, but turkeys think that every tall stump is a man." History of Turkey Dogs

Fall and Winter Turkey Hunting in Wisconsin, September 13, 2025 to January 4, 2026

 

Best pictures of the year, at the bottom: 
https://www.turkeydog.org/lucky.html