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. Your such a good person Julie! 

I lured them away from the water, and then caught them. They are domestic ducks, not mallards, wood ducks, etc. And they are public parks, so they are not supposed to be there anymore than a dog or cat. They can't fly, are sitting bait for predators, and interbreed with the mallards which isn't good for the mallards since then their offspring is mixed an unlikely to survive.

I contacted the superintedant of the parks and recreation dept. He gave me the ok.  I wanted to go last week, when I saw a big pekin girl but waited until I got official permission. BTW, apparently I was too late for the poor pekin girl, she was no longer there. WIsh I hadn't waited and had just got her when I saw her. There were however, 4 new ducks there. The runner I caught, his rouen buddy, and a 3-4 week pekin duckling and a rouen mix looking one around the same age. A scovy hen too, but she could fly and I was hoping was just lost. 

 Well, I've been looking for a runner forever and I guess karma paid me back since I found one today, lol. Evidently I need to be a bit MORE of a good person though, and then I can rescue some female runners, lol. 

I'm glad the legal way worked for you! I'll admit I've tried before but the park rangers down here are just . So I may one day do some off the record rescues... . And  for the pekin girls. You've already changed these guys lives forever Julie! 

I was planning on trying with or without permission.  

Luckily the parks and rec guy was pretty cool and said catch all the ducks I want and just don't touch the canada geese or mallards or I'd be in trouble with the dept of conservation.

He sounds pretty awesome! You can go on a duck catching spree ,  Maybe I should have tried higher up management because the rangers were jerks to say the least. 

Which is fine with me. I already have a canada goose "living" in my yard. Of course, she's not mine, she just chooses to live with my birds, and since it's illegal to harass migratory waterfowl it's not like I can chase her off or anything. 

How I feel when people bring drama to this section: 

The khaki mix looking one came from another park a mile or so away. It was living with about 60 canada geese, and I wish I had a video of me trying to catch that poor guy, lol. The geese swarmed me and I had to step on, walk through, kick out of the way, swim through pretty much to get to the poor guy. There was another duck there that I originally went to go after, but I didn't see him anywhere. Poor things don't last long at the parks.

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