[Kitchen Cottage]

  Went to bed last night with 3 ducklings (10 days old).... got up this morning to none.  Gorn.  Disappearred.  They can squeeze in and out of a little bit of the duck house.... but haven't tended to, just have stayed with Mum's.  The Ducks are going mental apparently.

Cat or rat? 

[Pundyburn Lynn]

Or heron?

[Kitchen Cottage]

I don't have a deep pond nearby and they are in an enclosure with a tree overhanging   Poor little ducklings

[mojocafa]

I lost many ducklings last year to my neighbours cat.  Apparently that's nature.

 

[Ideation]

Rat.. . . . . . almost 100%

Ducklings are absolute rat magnets.

[Anke]

Rats

[Dreich Pete]

Our second wild brood was 12 strong 1 week ago, as of yesrpterday it was down to 3. This is what happened to the first brood and only one survived. I actually saw them climbing through the new chicken wire when they were small enough so some may have hot lost or into trouble. Our neighbours think that there may be a stoat nearby and that Jackdaws will take chicks when they're small.

Sadly I found a dead one on the wrong side of the chicken wire and as it hadn't been attacked it must've died of exhaustion while trying to get back through.