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What Animal is steeling my Mullard Ducks - eggs in the night?
I've got a pair of wild ducks nesting in my garden and her first lot of eggs got stolen and now her second lot are going astray - two have holes out of them and have been left near the nest and one whole one I found 5 metres away - yesterday an odd yolk was sitting on the drive way. I left a chicken egg out last week and it was found smashed 5 - 6 metres away.
Got any tips - she has 3 eggs left now and I've sheltered her nest a bit more.
Bawburgh - England
Not just night - something went in this morning and removed an egg and eat the broken one, plus found shell in the water bowl I left out for the chickens (its not the chickens) and I found a whole egg this morning discarded on the grass - - its all very fishy!!!! We do have a mink near by because it must of got over the wall in to my garden to drop the whole egg? and on to the wall to find the whole chicken egg I left last week? and an otter but he wouldn't come this close to the house. A bird cant steel whole eggs and then leave one whole on the grass!!!
Two eggs left in the nest now and she's wandering around the garden, given up on them I think!!!
4 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Could be just about any night preditor, raccoon, fox, weasel, muskcrat, rat or owl. Anything that prowls at night looking for food is a likely suspect. Can you see any tracks or feces around the area? That might help to identify the culprit.
- GoldyLv 79 years ago
Seems like that a Crow has found the nest and it will not stop till it has taken all the eggs, the Layer of the eggs will not come back to the nest now . so it would be better to remove and dispose of the remaining eggs.
If it were a Fox it would have eaten all the eggs when it found them, so the above is more than likely the culprit
Mallard Duck,
WildLife Warden .
- Anonymous9 years ago
maybe some kind of a big wild bird who knew where to find a meal when it`s hungry ...
- 9 years ago
could be a fox, or snake fox, it's just what they do and snakes- they eat eggs. (probably not a snake though)
