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

[Miss Lydia]

I'm so thankful you got her home. They sure are special little girls, aren't they?

 

[ruthhope]

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

I was suggesting you move the wading pool to the front where she can see it from the tree. But that is no longer necessary now that you have her!!

 

[ruthhope]

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

I'm so glad you got her home -- and enjoyed the walk with you back to your place. Feral muscovy females walk round NW Florida neighborhoods even though they can fly. They go to the houses they know will feed them. I was interested that Karen seemed to know where she lived even while at the front of your house. But perhaps she could hear the sisters in the back yard!!!

I rescue ducks, and I have used a duck in a dog crate with food as a lure to get a dumped duck to come to me -- I then use a net to catch the dumped duck as it is easier than waiting until I can grab the duck. Even better to have a sister duck!!

I think everyone on BYC is as relieved as you are to have Puffin home!!!