If they can see it they will find it, thankfully our river sits below our home and we are surrounded by woods so it's not like they can just take off and walk to it. At one time when some of the drakes were still down there before we brought them home , I would weed eat a path to walk down to...
We have a mountain river about 300 ft from our home, thank goodness we sit high because it does flood. But when we had a major flood back in 2004 I found a huge snapping turtle that got lifted up out of the river and was sitting on the dirt road down from our house now I did help that turtle get...