❝pthhhpth❞ —bob

Oh cool a skele-

All of my islands have - & will have - these 3 ducks. A few years ago, my husband & I temporarily "adopted" a trio of ducks (all male, 1 Rouen & 2 Pekin) that some asshat dumped in a park we walked at. They were purely domestic & unable to fly (& were pretty frantic), so we didn't feel badly about breaking the park rules about feeding* them while we waited for a rescue team to come (took a couple of months). The terrain was such that they barely had cover, and not a lot of access to resources. (There was just one spot where they could hop out of the water to get to the food we brought.)

We got really attached to these guys, and if we had been able to build a habitat for them, would have taken them home. But they went to a place full of other birds with people who knew how to take care of them. We didn't name them, just called them Duck, Duck, Duck. They really liked hubs, and would come from far away when he called.

*4-6x a week, we brought a crazy variety of things for them. They're not picky: will walk through the food, etc., so we just piled up a mix of dried meal worms, cereal, frozen veggies, dried corn, watermelon (oh, they LOVED that)...

Pic 1: Repose Pic 2: Sleepyside Pic 3: Riverwell (defunct)

Codes:

Duck Sign MA-4015-2075-5702

Puddle MA-3271-3867-8667 (At least the Repose version)

Tis the season for seeing chubby little birds out and about!