Ep. 92 Boots, Bands & Baby Ducks: Robert Jones on North Delta’s Hatchery

Save it for the Blind Podcast · Jul 21, 2025 · 41m

Jeff’s off chasing summer vacation, so Carson Odegard grabs a mic with CWA egg-salvage guru Jason Coslovich - Egg Salvage Program Coordinator, Waterfowl Biologist and Robert “Rob” Jones—the volunteer dynamo keeping the North Delta Duck Hatchery clucking along since the early 2000s. Pull a chair up to the brooder and hear how a ramshackle 1996 shed on Tyler Island now kicks out 500 wild mallards a year, why 92 percent of rescued eggs actually hatch, and what it takes to relocate the whole outfit before next spring’s first quack.

Talking points

Eggs to wings: the combine-to-incubator relay that…