At 11:20 AM Friday morning the above ALARM went off..

LOUD WILD BARKING! at the sliding glass door.

MOM! MOM! there is Aix sponsa in the pool .. no kidding.. there is..

And there they were, Mama Wood Duck and 6 tiny babies.

OH NO! I screamed.. Jake will eat them..

NOTE: I did not know what they were, emailed TexWisGirl and she told me.

See her Wood Duck post that was on the same day our family came to visit.  

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There was  a problem. The babies could not get out. Mama would jump out and they would struggle to follow, Mama back in and back out, and we watched them struggle. the water was to low in the pool, it was a 12 inch jump for a tiny baby.
Bob swam around and scooped them out and she attacked him, then flew to the pool deck and flopped all over the yard like her wing was broken trying to get him away.

She ran off in the Palmetto bush and 4 followed her.

the other 2 kept getting back in the pool.  We waited for an hour, she did not come back.

Bob caught the 2 babies 3 times and put them out and right back in they went.
we searched all over for the family, they were gone.
4th time we put them in a box, and we let the dogs out and they verified she was gone taking 4 with her.

I called Wildlife Rescue and they said Wood ducks will not come back for their young.
She lost 5 of her babies, 3 to traffic on our street and  we took the 2 babies to the drop off at Bayshore Animal hospital for Wildlife to pick up.