My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?

Well, i spent a lot of the day looking all around the neighborhood for her at all the local ponds. I have absolutely no idea where she went for the day but she has returned to the tree for the night. I think she wants to come home but doesn't know how. We are only 2 houses down from the tree she is in but there isnt a direct line of sight to my backyard from the tree she is in. Jumping around the tree all day and night yesterday may have confused her on which way she came from. Ill go check her out again tomorrow morning and see if I am finally able to get her down.
Well that is an improvement on this morning. I suspect she was in a tree nearby and has not been near food or water.

Do you have a wading pool in your back garden? Could you bring it to your front garden where she can see it? And leave food near the wading pool? Maybe its 4 days in ducks the same as parakeets. Be patient.
 
Well i woke up nice and early at 7:30 as soon as the sun came up i went out to check on her and she is no longer in the tree... I dont know where she is going. Yes I have a pool in the back but also the angle of where she is wont be able to see the front of the house either
 
So basically she was not in the tree this morning, I came back inside for a bit 30 mins or so then went back outside to check again and she was not in the tree she was down on the street drinking out of a puddle. I tried to get her to come over by shaking the worm bag but she wouldn't come, then I opened my garage door and tried to just very slowly walk behind her to push her into my garage and close the door behind her, I got super close into our driveway but then she flew into a different closer neighbor's tree. Since she was so close I went to the back to let the ducks out and fill the pool so it looked nice and appealing but when I came back out she was nowhere to be seen. I jumped on my electric scooter to search around the neighborhood and I found her foraging in somebody's yard 1 street over so I went up to her with mealworms to see if I could get close enough to grab her and she did come up and grab a bill full off meal worms out of my hand but not in a way that I could confidently grab her.

My next idea was to grab one of her sisters and see if I could use her to lure in the Puffin, I went back to the coop and grabbed her sister Karen then walked 1 street over and she was very interested, I put Karen down on the ground in a way that I was still holding her and Puffin came right up excited to see her and say hi, however she still did not get close enough for me to confidently grab her and I did not want to try and fail and make things worse. Basically I just stood up and while holding Karen I very slowly walked behind Puffin to herd her into the right direction and surely enough after a long walk I managed to walk her all the way home!!

The video is attached of me walking her back home for anyone who wants to see it, skip to the end if you just want to see her reuniting with her sisters

 
So basically she was not in the tree this morning, I came back inside for a bit 30 mins or so then went back outside to check again and she was not in the tree she was down on the street drinking out of a puddle. I tried to get her to come over by shaking the worm bag but she wouldn't come, then I opened my garage door and tried to just very slowly walk behind her to push her into my garage and close the door behind her, I got super close into our driveway but then she flew into a different closer neighbor's tree. Since she was so close I went to the back to let the ducks out and fill the pool so it looked nice and appealing but when I came back out she was nowhere to be seen. I jumped on my electric scooter to search around the neighborhood and I found her foraging in somebody's yard 1 street over so I went up to her with mealworms to see if I could get close enough to grab her and she did come up and grab a bill full off meal worms out of my hand but not in a way that I could confidently grab her.

My next idea was to grab one of her sisters and see if I could use her to lure in the Puffin, I went back to the coop and grabbed her sister Karen then walked 1 street over and she was very interested, I put Karen down on the ground in a way that I was still holding her and Puffin came right up excited to see her and say hi, however she still did not get close enough for me to confidently grab her and I did not want to try and fail and make things worse. Basically I just stood up and while holding Karen I very slowly walked behind Puffin to herd her into the right direction and surely enough after a long walk I managed to walk her all the way home!!

The video is attached of me walking her back home for anyone who wants to see it, skip to the end if you just want to see her reuniting with her sisters

That was adorable!
My heart skipped a beat the couple of times she started heading off in the wrong direction. The reunion was lovely - can you imagine all the stories she has to tell her sisters!
So glad you got her back.
🥰
 
That was adorable!
My heart skipped a beat the couple of times she started heading off in the wrong direction. The reunion was lovely - can you imagine all the stories she has to tell her sisters!
So glad you got her back.
🥰
Me too I was trying to act calm but I was soooo worried the entire time you can hear my sigh of relief the second I got her closed in the coop lol
 
Me too I was trying to act calm but I was soooo worried the entire time you can hear my sigh of relief the second I got her closed in the coop lol
Don't take this the wrong way - but you were adorable too - keeping a very quiet calm tone and then practically jumping for joy once you had them all in!
:love
 

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