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Crazy story that happened today involving a wood duck
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:38 pm
I was working today. I had just finished delivering to some of my businesses, and i was parked behind some of them next to a telephone pole to deliver to the apartments that are directly south. Something caught my eye as I got out of my truck to make some deliveries. I looked down to see a wood duck hen laying dead on the ground with what looked like a gash in one side of her breast. After a few seconds of staring at her in disbelief, I looked around to see if I could see feathers on the ground, or another bird, or whatever. After I saw none of those things, I did what most Southern guys would do...I nudged her with my foot. When I did that, I noticed she hadn't gone stiff yet. That told me she had died within the previous 20 minutes or so. I then called a friend of mine that owns one of the businesses across the street from me. He answered the phone and I asked if he wanted a wood duck. After pausing for a few seconds, and asking me what I was talking about he ended up coming over to see if I was bullshittin him. We threw around ideas about what happened we figured out that she had flown into the electrical wire and died from the voltage. I looked closer and realized some of the feathers were singed a bit, so it made sense. He then told me he would keep her in his fridge at work if I wanted to pick her up from him when I got off. I agreed, and picked her up at the end of my day. I guess the electricity did a number on her, because she went bad before i could get her home, so I just threw her in a gulley at my inlaws house.
Sorry the story is so long. I just had to get it out to my fellow Outdoor Board brethren.
Sorry the story is so long. I just had to get it out to my fellow Outdoor Board brethren.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:40 pm to LSUFan3434
The moral of the story is what were you delivering?
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:51 pm to El Josey Wales
No. The moral of the story is: don't try to eat a duck that has committed suicide by flying into an electrical wire...no matter how fresh. The bird will go bad before you have the chance to clean it.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:55 pm to El Josey Wales
I'm with Josey what kinda goods were being delivered . Story sounds kinds fishy to me . But I would figured it would half arse cook the bird
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:55 pm to LSUFan3434
Couldn't have gotten electrocuted
No path to ground.
And just because she wasn't stiff doesn't mean she had just died.
Rigamortis wears off after a time
No path to ground.
And just because she wasn't stiff doesn't mean she had just died.
Rigamortis wears off after a time
Posted on 1/7/13 at 9:57 pm to BigHoss
What BigHoss said. Highly unlikely it got electrocuted. How do you think doves are able to sit on power lines?
Posted on 1/7/13 at 10:11 pm to CP3
oh yeah....didn't think about that. shite.
anyways, i'm a mailman. i deliver mail.
anyways, i'm a mailman. i deliver mail.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 10:25 pm to LSUFan3434
Birds are only stiff for a bit, after a couple of days dead they are nice and limbered up. I know this o be fact.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 10:36 pm to LSUFan3434
quote:
i'm a mailman. i deliver mail.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 11:07 pm to LSUFan3434
You think that's a weird wood duck story. I was on a drillship a couple months ago about 100 miles offshore. A coworker of mine told me he saw a wood duck drake swimming next to the ship the previous time he was onboard. WTF was he doing out in the gulf?
Posted on 1/8/13 at 7:15 am to LSUFan3434
They will nest in holes in utility poles. I've seen it. The holes are generally made by Pileateds. I saw a pair making a fresh holes in one Sunday at a ball park.
If one hits more than one line, zappo.
If one hits more than one line, zappo.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 8:31 am to AlxTgr
Exactly. Phase-to-phase. Happens often in our plant. Usually the wingspan gets them. Had a hawk scoop up a dove sitting on a filter and when it spread its wings ZAP!
Posted on 1/8/13 at 9:22 am to AlxTgr
that's possibly what happened. i looked up at the lines, and there were two that were pretty close to one another.
i see woodies on my route every now and then because of the bayous that run through it, but it was still an odd occurrence
i see woodies on my route every now and then because of the bayous that run through it, but it was still an odd occurrence
Posted on 1/8/13 at 9:36 am to LSUFan3434
Imagine being in a men's softball game at a park in the piney woods and seeing a hen fly from a pole. I was really confused at first. Have seen it at two different parks now.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:26 am to AlxTgr
You serious?
My wildest bird story is this one time me and some friends were on a road trip and we looked up in the sky amd there were three birds that were very large, black in color, and they were all flying in a circle up above us. We kept driving thinking it was going to change but to our disbelief we were probably a mile down the road and looked back and they were still flying in a circle. Odd.
My wildest bird story is this one time me and some friends were on a road trip and we looked up in the sky amd there were three birds that were very large, black in color, and they were all flying in a circle up above us. We kept driving thinking it was going to change but to our disbelief we were probably a mile down the road and looked back and they were still flying in a circle. Odd.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:30 am to iwyLSUiwy
quote:About wood ducks nesting in old Pileated holes in poles? Yes, as serious as dick cancer.
You serious?
Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:43 am to AlxTgr
Here's another story but with a better ending. Buddy and I were fishing on Toledo Bend one spring. We were fishing some timber and my buddy made a cast and it went over a tall dead tree, about 10 ft. above the water. We eased to the tree and he began to pull his bait over it. We bumped the tree with the boat and all of a sudden a loud flutter came above the top of the tree. A hen woodie goes flying out and is caught on the fishing line. We pull it in, and untangle it and let it go. Obvioulsy it had a nest on top of the dead tree.
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