Barrington Farmers Market 2023
Join the community from 3-7 p.m. Thursdays for Barrington’s weekly Farmers Market from June 15th through September 28, 2023 in the Harris Bank Parking lot, Grove Avenue, downtown Barrington, Illinois.
Learn more about the food and this year’s vendors at BarringtonFarmersMarket.com.
From the Community
Wood Duck Update.
There are now two families of Wood Ducks on Long Slough (a.k.a. Vander Pool) at Flint Creek Savanna. One family has 8 ducklings and one has 16.
Clutch size averages 6-16, so 16 may be a normal clutch, but Wood Ducks also practice "egg dumping." Some females - often first-year breeders - follow another Wood Duck back to her nest box and deposit one egg a day while the original female is out foraging. This results in overly large clutches and decreases hatching success.
I once saw a pair of Wood Ducks sitting on top of the nest box I monitored and watched them fly away. I assumed the box was now empty, stuck my phone in the hole, and took a picture. There was a female on the nest, which makes me think the pair on top was egg dumping. Also, after the ducklings left the nest, there were 3 or 4 unhatched eggs remaining inside which suggests there were too many eggs, some of which failed to hatch. #woodduck #woodducks #woodduckducklings #ducklings #birding #citizensforconservation #365barrington #birdphotography #birdingphotography #nikonbirds