{"id":279,"date":"2012-05-01T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2022-03-14T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:35:48","slug":"cape-natives-missing-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/cape-natives-missing-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Native’s Missing Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Cape Native blog, I saw a post about a couple missing ducks and some evidence or crime scene pictures. I tried to leave a comment on the post itself<\/a>, but it was kicking me out to a wordpress.com login which I don’t have, so below the quote is my reply.<\/p>\n

We lost a darling duo of ducks Sunday evening, but their disappearance was not without a trace \u2013 and not without forewarning. We\u2019ve been on alert for the last couple of weeks. First, I discovered a young fisher scrambling away from the upper duck house two weeks ago. The low furry creature was illuminated by my headlights late at night and I was momentarily frozen in amazement as it sort of bounded and sort of undulated across the driveway…<\/p>\n

With nothing else to do about the duck disappearance, I searched for clues and found a few. The fact that both disappeared so completely makes me think there may have been multiple assailants. I submit for your perusal evidence photos from the crime scene.<\/p>\n

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via Ducks attacked \u00ab Cape Native<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Its hard to tell whether you have a fox or a coyote print there in the top photo because there is nothing to scale the tracks, but they are definitely canine tracks. Not a fisher<\/a>. The prints from both the coyote and the fox tend to look the same except for a few differences in the shapes of the toes and coyote tracks<\/a> are larger than fox tracks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last pic is definitely a raccoon track. I have seen both fox and raccoons respond at the same time to animal distress sounds at night. Either one could have responded to the sound of the other getting a duck, leading to a copycat killing.<\/p>\n

All feathered and furred predators are either feeding their young or getting ready to at this time of year, so keep a close eye on your pets and livestock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Cape Native blog, I saw a post about a couple missing ducks and some evidence or crime scene pictures. I tried to leave a comment on the post itself, but it was kicking me out to a wordpress.com … Continue Reading \u25ba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8,20,21,18,32,19,4],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-coyote","tag-fisher","tag-fox","tag-predators","tag-raccoon","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}