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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2018 20:05:33 GMT
Went for a walk with my girl around a local trail I've been walking around since I was a kid. There's a particular part of the trail where ducks of several varieties (including extraordinarily colourful wood ducks) congregate. Sometimes there are so many and they are so docile and used to positive human interaction that it's nearly impossible to move around them without stepping on em. (Although it's rare they are there in those numbers.) It reminded me of something most parents do around here. You take your children to feed the ducks. It's a thing. Here at least. Now I know a fair amount of people from the board are from Europe and even further, so I'm curious if there's anything like this regional... I don't even know what to call it, tradition I guess, if there's any variant you guys have. Or maybe just different ducks...looooool (Also "tradition" isn't quite the word I'm looking for. "Colloquialism" is nearer but still not right...) Wood Duck FYI ↓  Oh, and my girlfriend just shared this about 5 mins ago which has barely any relevance to the post but is fitting in here 'cause reasons. You might have to be Canadian to get this though I dunno...  Cobra chicken  |
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Post by Terminator Force on Jun 15, 2018 20:13:07 GMT
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jun 15, 2018 21:06:19 GMT
I've been a fan of ducks and geese for a while now. My parents were actually the ones who helped relocate this goose, "Binks," to a Humane Society rescue ranch a while back (and yes, he was named after Jar-Jar, though he's considerably less annoying): longmeadowrescueranch.org/barnbuddies/binks-2/One interesting thing about him is that he was dumped at a public park when he was still a gosling and the pond was mostly inhabited by ducks. As an adult, he'd let the ducks cut right in front of him for food (something plenty of geese wouldn't be so generous about), and when Canada geese would show up and start picking on the ducks, Binks would occasionally jump in and defend them. |
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Post by Gecko on Jun 15, 2018 21:25:50 GMT
I feed the chickens... Seriously though, yeah it was something my parents did with me every Sunday when I was a kid. It was a family thing, everyone went to the local park to feed the ducks and have a picnic etc. And it's strange, whilst I have a mild phobia of birds (and their mutherfuckin stabby, stabby beaks) ducks don't bother me at all... All hail the mighty duck! |
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Post by Beerfish on Jun 15, 2018 21:47:32 GMT
What do you call two mallards? A paradox.
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Post by Beerfish on Jun 15, 2018 21:48:46 GMT
I had to know ducks inside and out....um yeah when I took Bio Sciences. Anas Platyrinchus!
Wood ducks are beautiful as are Harlequin ducks. Ducks also taste pretty good.
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Post by Curious Crow on Jun 15, 2018 21:57:30 GMT
We have a lake in the city, which is called Tjörnin, or the Pond and it's a popular place to feed the ducks (eiders and mallards). There are also a few bakeries around and it used to be that you could go there and ask for old bread to give the ducks. Not sure if that's a thing any more. But it's quite popular to take the kids out there and feed the birds, also gives them some life stories of geese snatching their mittens and such.
There are usually some swans there as well. And geese (grey ones, but those guys are everywhere. During the summer it's sometimes forbidden to feed them, because there are also some seagulls around and they like to snatch the ducklings while the parents are distracted by delicious bread.
They are also fed at some other places, but this one is the most popular. Don't think it's very popular in the countryside.
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Jun 15, 2018 22:22:28 GMT
I have fed french fries, fried in duck fat, to ducks.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 1:52:09 GMT
I would never feed any ducks. I hunt only boars and white stags. Small prey is to be left to procreate. But fish and black bears are better of leaving the forest around my hometown. Oh and attack bunnies were is Problem in Hamburg, though they looked more laid back than Anxious. Anyway, never been a Ranger or Hunter, but bunnies and ducks are to be fed and not hunted. ![=]](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/yNrAXjkTcPPBLrsOOiCC.png) |
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Post by OneWomanArmy on Jun 16, 2018 7:23:37 GMT
I used to feed the ducks and swans at this lake at my home town, I think at least two or three times a week. One of the times a swan bit my ass.... I kid you not! I was just a little kid and I don’t even know why lol. I still loved them all though. Animals are the best thing in life, better than anything else in life.
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Post by Atemporal Vanguardian-Debugger on Jun 16, 2018 10:32:19 GMT
Well... Yes but no longer. Feed them -till you run out of feed and then RUN!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 11:32:36 GMT
Black ducks are my backbone right now. Feeding them with green flowers brown liquor|iced cold. Hope they finally get that black ducklings will be the help against boars and black bears around here. |
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Post by Atemporal Vanguardian-Debugger on Jun 16, 2018 20:22:19 GMT
Great this person must have fed them too much and they followed them home:  |
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Post by Sifr on Jun 17, 2018 0:33:16 GMT
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Post by masterwarderz on Jun 17, 2018 17:21:39 GMT
Ducks are quite tasty when their flesh is charred and seared in a nice wine based blood sauce.
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Post by Lady Artifice on Jun 17, 2018 17:55:04 GMT
Ducks are monsters.
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Post by MrR40 on Jun 17, 2018 20:41:28 GMT
Regularly feeding the ducks ( especially in summer and spring ) makes the male duck population lazy. Since they have to devote less time searching for food, they tend to harass and even rape female ducks. This all according to observers.
In a local paper here a request was made to keep feeding to a minimum.
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 17, 2018 21:53:28 GMT
I don't mind feeding them once in a while. Don't make them into welfare ducks, they need to keep finding their own food not looking for free handouts.
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