Crazy ducks!

[NYlakesider]

This picture taken yesterday. Saw them a couple days ago also!. Should not one of this pair be on a nest? They were here for 2 hours; they were picking up small bird seed that fell on the ground from the wife’s feeders.

This picture taken from my house, which is about 300’ & a 100’ elevation higher from the lake. The distance to the ducks is about 20’ shot from inside the house threw a window.

It’s common to get turkeys other small birds and mammals up her including deer looking for food, but this is the first time ever saw ducks way up here.

 

[Farmer17]

We have a small pond next to our house and a male and female Mallard have been living there for several months and my wife calls them Fred and Ethyl. They walk up the little hill to our back porch every evening and my wife feeds them and they will get as close as 10 or 12 feet away. We just got back from a short vacation Sunday evening and haven't seen them since, I hope they come back we kinda miss them.

 

[Jack Flash]

We have a small pond next to our house and a male and female Mallard have been living there for several months and my wife calls them Fred and Ethyl. They walk up the little hill to our back porch every evening and my wife feeds them and they will get as close as 10 or 12 feet away. We just got back from a short vacation Sunday evening and haven't seen them since, I hope they come back we kinda miss them.

Maybe they rented their place out to Desi and Lucy.

 

[RJJ 1971]

That is crazy as duck.

 

[Chuck24]

They're just out ducking around.

 

[BigBill]

Too soon for laying eggs?

 

[swsig]

...It’s common to get turkeys other small birds and mammals up her including deer looking for food, but this is the first time ever saw ducks way up here.

Why a duck?

 

[staysafebob]

Why not a goose?

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[Farmer17]

Too soon for laying eggs?

Actually we had baby ducks hatch near our pond last spring and the mom and little quackers would swim around and play in the water. Hopefully Ethyl gets knocked up and has some ducklings for us to watch this year.

 

[625-7]

Wanna buy a duck?

 

[NYlakesider]

Too soon for laying eggs?

Thats what I was wondering. This was a very usualyl warm winter, we had very little ice on the lake and what was there melted out fast and the ducks and geese came back much earlier this year. Seeing them by the water is normal, but never had them way up at my house before.

 

[soFlaNative]

People ask me if I've been stepping on ducks.
I don't understand...

 

[pittpa]

People ask me if I've been stepping on ducks.
I don't understand...

This may help.

 

[Farmer17]

Fred and Ethyl came back to visit us last week and were on our pond. I was so excited I yelled "Hey Fred" and he looked at me and started swimming my direction and a few minutes later he and Ethyl were by my back porch so I threw them some duck food. I go out the front door a couple days ago and Ethyl is in our flower bed next to the house and has a nest with 6 eggs in it. With all the acres of land and woods around the pond why does she pick that place to build a nest? We are being careful not to use the front door and scare her away, it's kind of bad because we need to mow, weed-eat, and spray for weeds but I guess it will take a month or so for the eggs to hatch.

 

[chaparrito]

Ethyl knows her nest is safe up near your house. Smart bird! Besides, you don't NEED to weed-eat and spray and all that other stuff.

Two Texans looking at birds in a pond:

M-R ducks
M-R not
M-R 2, C-M wangs?

 

[shouldazagged]

I've fished a farm pond and seen baby ducklings swimming in line astern, and suddenly one would vanish. Turtles, and sometimes big bass, take a toll.

 

[NYlakesider]

I've fished a farm pond and seen baby ducklings swimming in line astern, and suddenly one would vanish. Turtles, and sometimes big bass, take a toll.

I have seen that also.


FWIW the duck pair I first posted about in Post #1 have been back a couple time since my last post.. Yesterday they were walking up the hill and they went all the way to the back and disappeared (a distance of about 120 yards.)

 

[Farmer17]

Well I came home from work today and sat down in the living room and Ethyl was looking sideways at me with her head about 2 inches away from our patio door. So I go out and and say hello and throw her half coffee cup full of duck food that she quickly starts eating and I walk back inside. About 30 minutes later I look out the study window to see if she's sitting on her nest in the flower bed. You can just barley see the nest but I saw a little movement so I think she's there but I keep smashing my face against the window to get a better view and see this great big snake in the nest! I run out in the garage and grab my big Bowie knife out of the belt sheath hanging on the wall and run around to the front porch and the snake is crawling up my downspout. About then my wife pulls up from work and gets out of the car and I yell at her to bring my pellet rifle. I put one round in his head from my RWS M34 .22 and he bled like crazy down the side of our light colored brick, he also stunk, and there wasn't one single egg in the nest. I just saw Fred and Ethyl out in the pond and I feel kind of bad for them and me too, I was looking forward to seeing some ducklings hatch. There's no way ducks can move their eggs to another location is there?

 

[Wrangler Rich]

Nope, that snake got them.

 

[JayFramer]

Are you sure it wasn't a duck-bodied platypus?

https://youtu.be/8OtMq2s0TyM?t=4m50s