? Nesting

[Riverratpete]

Ok, While stuck in backed up rush hour once again, I got to thinking, since ducks are on a biological clock as far as nesting and the migration being slowed or backed up due to foul weather conditions up north my question is this, would some of the birds that would normally nest up north or Canada etc just end up nesting in Minnesota rather then keep trying to get to their "nesting" grounds or would they just keep hammering through till they got there? ideas?

[TylerS]

Doubtful. They'll keep going where they're going. Worse-case scenario, they nest late and the ducklings have a shorter timespan to fledge and fly south. Also, later-nesting ducks are less likely to re-nest if they lose a clutch due to predation.

Ducks nest where there is habitat, and in a land of 10,000 lakes, there's not a lot of water that is duck friendly.

[Musky Buck]

What Tyler said and we snuck up on a nice flock of mallards or at least from a distance knew there were a fat dozen or so in the pond, jumped em and they ran into the weeds lol except ma was quacking like crazy, opening day of duck season, high noon, and my dad was like uh wow, ok, lets go try the next pond, the little buggers weren't flying yet, likely a late hatch after a destroyed nest, haven't seen that since, thankfully. I'd guess the snow geese are going where they are going and so I'd guess most birds are doing the same, haven't noticed any extra pairs of geese or anything around, the geese are on nests in my MN location. Waiting though to see those huge flocks of molt migrants when they start coming through like mad in a few weeks or more.

[Archerysniper]

I was working a construction project at Mystic Lake casino yesterday and found this one nested up at the main entrance.