Posted on 06/06/2016 9:25:02 PM PDT by dsrtsage
I noticed that, but I've always seen ducklings following their mother in the water rather than swimming along on their own. Of course I'm not sure I've ever seen ducks in a swimming pool before.
A coyote took out a mother Groundhog in my bushes this past weekend... Leaving barely welped chucklings facing the world for the first time, alone.
I have 4 of them. They seem to be doing ok on their own but when I found them they crawled right into my hands and balled up with me.
My wife has the pics, and I don’t do pics on FR because I don’t have a host.
“Are these wood ducks?”
The mama duck looks like a mallard.
Well, that’s just ducky and quacks me up.
What web of a tale did you peddle to induce them to paddle in yer thar Seement pawn’d?
Gives me goose bumps...
Can the babies get out of the pool?
Photobucket is pretty good and you can easily set the privacy controls.
We have a problem with geese. They’re constant poop machines, light of day alarm clocks, party animals inviting friends to dine and poop in our yard, and will probably outlive me. It does bother me that they keep losing their young, probably to foxes.
A hawk almost got the female a few weeks ago and they have changed their routine a bit and she's not always in attendance - probably some instinct to keep her safe for the young ones.
If you think that babies just appear...maybe that is why this is as close to a daddy that you will get. Ha ha.
They are cute. But do you want that chlorine on their little feathers?
LOL, nothing against the chucklings, but...my wife would welcome a visit from that coyote if it would take out our groundhogs.
They ate her entire garden of planted vegetables. I was laying in my hammock a few days ago, and looked over to see a “chuckling” calmly eating about five feet away from me. It was upwind, and apparently didn’t realize I was laying in the hammock.
I will say this about those damned woodchucks. They may ripple with fat, but they can run really damned fast.
I am a well known duckling rescuer. I rescued them in Spain. I rescued them from a pool at the top of a large hotel in Vancouver. I have rescued them in Boston.
They should have a duckling shaped lantern they can project onto the clouds to call me when needed.
I understand they are fine eating and there are/were recipes in the Joy of Cooking which was originally written in the depression-era.
Just be glad they aren’t Canadian geese. They wouldn’t ever leave, and under federal law you’ll go to jail if you try to make them leave.
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Why is that the case? They are certainly not endangered and could be good eating.
Make Way for Ducklings.
Best Duck book ever!
The EPA has declared your pool a protected inland waterway and the US Fish and Wildlife Service is on its way to arrest you for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty.
They are definitely just common Mallard.
#6 - lol...just another group of protected illegals...
Mama Duck at poolside: “Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in again!”
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