Some ducks I have known

This duck was persuaded to fly off and lay her eggs somewhere else as it wasn?t fitting or proper to lay them in my backyard. Why? Because my backyard is fenced in. Her eggs would hatch and on the third day mother ducks take their baby ducks on their first walk to water. To get there from here involves crossing mown lawns, sidewalks, curbs and city streets to get to our Wolf Creek. She had laid eggs in our front yard and we worried and watched her march her babies to the creek. The problem was the ducks tended to follow one another and the first hatched is always the biggest duckling and the leader following momma. Momma jumped up over the drain in the curb where storm water flows off the street. The biggest duckling made it up and over this cavernous opening but the smaller ducks had problems and some had to jump two or three times. One didn?t make it and only jumped high enough to fall into the cavern and was probably washed out to the creek several blocks away. I think that and hope that is what happened to it. Momma didn?t even notice.

So when she landed in my fenced-in back yard I knew what she was going to do and I chased her out. And she left somewhat reluctantly, quacking at me on the way out.

I have been involved in my environment and local wildlife for more than 48 years.

True Story?
Fifteen years ago, I found this duck in a great deal of stress and I managed to rescue her and saved her from death. She had a fish hook lodged in her mouth and the fishing line was wrapped so tight around her wing and leg that it cut into her flesh and the duck could not raise it's head without forcing the hook in deeper. I took the duck to the only vet in the area and asked him to help get the hook out of her mouth. Doctor Joe T. Fergus (now retired) removed the hook and helped me free the wing and leg. The duck recovered in my garage and was released back in the city park.

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