Wood Duck Box Maintenance & Repair | Adding & Repairing Boxes for 2024 Nesting Season 

Hopefully your hard work pays off.

Making some next weekend hopefully. Got some old barn wood laying around 👍

One year I went to put fresh shavings in my boxes around mid-February and opened one box that had a hen sitting on a dozen eggs. Needless to say I was shocked. Now I would put several boxes out on a body of water depending on size. If I could get them at 100 yards apart and out of sight of each other the birds seemed to like them. My current hunting property has several beaver ponds on it. I may see about getting some boxes out on them. I know the woodies fly the creeks, but I've never tried to shoot them out there. I did that on my other property where I had a 7 acre pond, but that is the piece that was sold on me. What a bummer. I did build and put out another blue bird box today. I have three on my dove field and I'm putting them out on my food plots. Last year I had seven blue bird boxes out and all of them had nests. Some had multiple nests and hatches. They are very similar to the duck box just on a smaller scale. Great job on the upkeep and maintenance. I wish I'd know you had not put the drain holes in as I would have said something. The other thing I do is pitch the box forward just slightly so the chicks can climb up and out easier rather than trying to scale a vertical wall.

As A 40 year electrician I had to laugh “ don’t knock the lineman off the pole” haven’t heard that in a while. Also love your wood duck box vids I maintain about 40 boxes with 35% usage year after year.

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Just got all of ours freshened up! We had a hen checking out a box a few weekends ago. I’d say you are good with 2 on a body of water. We have 2 on our acre pond and 3 in our 1.5 acre swamp just spaced out good. They all get used every year for the most part. We have a fox squirrel nesting in one now so we will lose a box this spring.

I don't know wood duck box placement minimums, I'm sure there's research. Bluebirds prefer 300 yard spacing, that's about what I'd recommend for wood ducks, 200-300.