General Chat

Maggie,

we have same problem, mind you think OH should not feed them so much in summer - we had four regularly (hedgehogs) and one night son staying counted five. On OH's allotment his compost heap are lots of slow worms which bed down each winter but he also has lots of slugs.

Lindsey - confused by notice, well birds have feathers and wings and beaks and last night our two ducks had the same!!

the notice on our Tesco footbridge across the river reads

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE BIRDS
OR DUCKS

when is duck not a bird ?

Ducks in the garden- fantastic!
We used to keep ducks in our large garden in Essex and they ate all the slugs, snails and cranefly larva - then we ate the ducks!
Mind you, they'd also eat the vegetables-but we fenced them off!

I've got sloworms and hedghogs in my (now) small garden - but they're not very efficient at eating slugs & snails

How lovely, Chris.

We have a pair of chaffinches in the garden - they arrived last week and are taking advantage of all the food we put out. We have lots of tits, possible the babies one pair reared in our bird box the summer before last. No ducks tho!

Lizx

Donald and Jemima visited again tonight at their usual time of around 6.15p.m.!!!

I was thinking of Heacham but that's not far away. All that area of coast is lovely.

Lizx

Yes, its at snettisham, and there are loads of ducks

Agatha, your holiday caravan isn't near Hunstanton by any chance ?

There is a village nearby with lots of ducks that move into people's gardens and the caravan parks too

Lizx

OH has said he gives in this year - a couple of times last year he tried to chase them but they were persistent - he got worried when they roosted on our roof! There is a large village pond about 500 yards away with a purpose built island in the middle for the ducks to nest and about 1/4 mile away as a duck flies is a river.

We do not have a 1/4 acre garden, just normal.

Its lovely to have them in your garden to watch, we get them on the site our Holiday caravan is on in Norfolk and the mothers bring the ducklings round everyday to see us.

How do you pluck a goose without all that hissing Dermot

Chris, once you are known to them, they like to return.

We had the same female duck and her mate return to us for 4 years.
She nested in an old disused greenhouse and probably saw me as a soft touch, because when it was very hot during her first stay with us and she was sitting on her nest all day, I went out and draped the painting sheets over the glass, to give her some shade.

She wasn't the brightest of ducks and I don't know what she would have done with her babies if I hadn't been around to open the 5ft high gate . She flew in and out each day, but they couldn't !

Enjoy the visits.

Gwyn

Roast duck tonight....lol

Last year a pair of ducks (drake and his mate) decided to reside in our garden for part of each day - this went on for several months. OH has just yelled out -They're back' I am left wondering what is back - it is the ducks!!!!