As with all waterfowl, American black ducks molt in the summer ... X black duck decoys mixed in with my spread of mallards and wood ducks. For salt marsh hunts, I run a rig of six to eight Avian ...

Here's an interesting display of passive survival techniques from a wood duck and family with ducklings where the drake plays dead whilst the others hide. I happened to accidentally stumble upon them ...

This week's outdoors report has the latest on an annual effort to provide wood duck & bluebird houses to conservation-minded people.