Last tuesday we had a huge thunderstorm right overhead. It was continuous strikes from about 11 till almost midnight. When I went out to open up in the morning the ducks were nowhere to be seen.....
They are free range in the day but are in an old rabbit hutch overnight, It is getting a bit (a lot) small and I think they could have opened the door by banging it but due to no feathers I really thought humans were to blame. No very likely in our area, but they were big enough to eat if not adult.
No sign of them all day and I started to look in stupid places. No sign thurs am....Ah well no ducks again (last years went to the fox too) We went out for a couple of hours and there were two ducks sitting on the lawn when we returned! They had oil on their backs. I thought I had looked under the caravan but I tried again...no..So I tried under the old van in a garage way away from their usual teritory....no...But I did hear some peeping from an old machine wedged in the corner. If their house was small this space was tiny, but there they were. Far too frightened to come out even with a shake of food pot. It took two of us on waggling a grass rake down the gap between one wall and the machine..and me crawling in to grab them as they came slightly forwards.
All 5 back safe and sound...smallholdings are never dull........
Now I MUST get round to making that new duck house!!!
Topic: Safe and sound. (Read 2530 times)
