Some of you may know that I’ve been anticipating getting my new camera. Anyways, as soon as I got home with it there were ducks in my pool. In the four years I’ve been living here I’ve never had a duck in my pool so I had to get some pics. I was like “holy crap! what are you crazy ducks doing in my pool?”:puzzled:
Granted these pics were taken immediately after I opened my new camera and I had’nt really played with it yet I think some of the pics turned out okay. O yea and my dog Molson is afraid of ducks. :beam:
As much as I don’t want them in my pool I think it’s pretty cool that they come and visit. I wonder if they think it’s a pond because of these little wooden lily pad things have floating around in there.
They’re called mallards :sure: and PLEASE be careful about feeding them. I saw a show not too long ago where a woman was doing that and they showed some video a couple weeks later of (I kid you not) about 400 ducks in the air above her house all trying to land in the pool and get a free meal. Her place was trashed and the pool cleaner was pretty pissed. She also found herself purchsing a 50 lb sack of feed every couple of days. Took a month of cutting them off cold turkey to get her pool back . . .
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p.s. a little bread is okay but too much is bad for their health. They need to eat more grains etc. than bread.
I only feed the two that nest and if more were to show up I would certainly stop. Its not like I give them a loaf of bread a day, just once slice balled up small and tight between the two of them. That way it does not expand too much in their crop.
Key word being “read”, heh heh :trout: sorry 'bout that slice’n’dice :beam:
Yeah we have a couple of ‘puddle ducks’ that come to our neighborhood every spring. This year however was a really sunny and dry spring so they were looking a little forlorn until someone put out a kiddie pool for them Now they’re really happy.
I am fortunate enough to ride 6 miles to work every day on a spectacular paved path along the river. Part of it runs through a little wildlife refuge. I see a blue heron almost every day, geese and ducks with all their fuzzy babies, there is an osprey nest on the route and they’ve got chicks in there, and it’s bald eagle season up the river corridor. Makes having to get up at dawn ALMOST worth it . . .
My parents have squirrels and hedgehogs that turn up in their garden on a regular basis, so they leave food and water out for them.
Though it’s very strange to be eating your dinner when your mum suddenly turns round and goes “hmmm, there’s a squirrel under the table”, you look down, and there is aforementioned squirrel, eating a peanut.
Rule nuber one: never leave the patio door open and the squirrel food in plain view…
wow how cute is that? Hissing geese used to scare the poo out of me when I was a kid. We had some on our street that were about my size and very mean. :ogre:
Saw a whole assembly line of those little guys on my ride this morning. One parent in front, 6 or 7 huge hungry babies in a line then another adult. Reminded me of the lunch line at grade school.
The only wildlife we get at our house besides super noisy jays at 5 a.m. are raccoons on the porch eating the cat’s food at 3 a.m. Freaks the cat out so he starts yowling, then our 2 yr old mastiff lets out her big bark and begs to go out and kill them, then the 10 wk old puppy thinks he needs to start barking b/c the other dog is barking . . . it’s like a dang circus! :sigh:
ROFL! When people get freightened by birds it really cracks me up. A couple of weeks ago my brother and I took my nieces out to a farm and the younger one (3 years old) got confronted by a big goose that was quacking at her and she just stood there frozen with fear. A couple of minutes later we realised that the poor kid had messed her pants from the fright. lol
One of these days I’m going to track down the foxes in my neighborhood and try to snag some pictures. I don’t know if my whopping 3x zoom will be good enough though
Now they’re really happy.
