My Love Affair With Ducks...

[duluthralphie]

You are so right, @duluthralphie ! - Those ducknagers have a very special smell: They smell like a fresh cut meadow in the evening after a hot sunny summer day.

Please review the above list and let us know which conditions apply to you.

Thanks
DR Ralphie

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

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Please review the above list and let us know which conditions apply to you.

Thanks
DR Ralphie

- None of the above.

They really smell like fresh cut grass! - They were playing in the hay that i cut yesterday for the whole day, literally digging tunnels into the stack and playing hide and seek.

 

[duluthralphie]

- None of the above.

They really smell like fresh cut grass! - They were playing in the hay that i cut yesterday for the whole day, literally digging tunnels into the stack and playing hide and seek.

I should have added delusional

 

[Mimi13]

Good grief! - What is that?!? - Is that a commercial for a kitty-shampoo?

Well shoot, I didn’t watch the dang video. I hope it didn’t have anything terrible on it. I honestly didn’t know there was a video. Phoebe, one of the characters on the sitcom “Friends,” wrote this terrible song. She seemed to sing it through all the seasons the show was on. And, she couldn’t sing worth a toot.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Well shoot, I didn’t watch the dang video. I hope it didn’t have anything terrible on it. I honestly didn’t know there was a video. Phoebe, one of the characters on the sitcom “Friends,” wrote this terrible song. She seemed to sing it through all the seasons the show was on. And, she couldn’t sing worth a toot.

Nothing bad happens in that video, except for the moment when the cat is thrown out of the house. But that whole song is a violation of every musical art form. Even my ducks voice's are more harmonic than Phoebe's singing…

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I could not hear it, did he made that Uuump! sound when he raised out of the water?
Still don't know what it means exactly, but i think it is something showing dominance because only the strongest of my drakes do that.

There was no noise at all, just that action that reminds me of a horse rearing up. It is different than the ‘rise up out of the water to flap wings’ motion, which they all do. So far, only Ralphie has made this motion, repeatedly I might add.

I think this is a mating call of sorts and a way for a Ralphie dux to show off what a stud muffin he is. It must be how you know you have a true alpha Ralphie.
My Ralphie dux also does this and I rarely have ever seen any of the other Drakes do it. I was just as confused as you when he's very first started doing that I kept thinking I had a frog in or near the duck pond somewhere.
Then I finally realized it was Ralphie doing it.

 

[Mimi13]

Shoot fire, I thought I posted Ralphie’s Whistle Grunt already. Ralphie Dux DOES make a noise now when he “rises from the water like a sea creature,” but it is hard to capture it as loud as he does it. (May be the background noise, may be my hand too close to the microphone.) Who knows?

But anyway, I think he really succeeded with his “thang” yesterday (that I’ve seen anyway), because, first of all, he was able to stay on top of Hershey longer and I’m pretty sure I saw a little sumpin sumpin after he hopped out of the pool. He was certainly shaking his tail feathers a lot.

The only duck that has continuously dismissed his advances is Quinny. So far she wants nothing to do with him or his luv!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Shoot fire, I thought I posted Ralphie’s Whistle Grunt already. Ralphie Dux DOES make a noise now when he “rises from the water like a sea creature,” but it is hard to capture it as loud as he does it. (May be the background noise, may be my hand too close to the microphone.) Who knows?

But anyway, I think he really succeeded with his “thang” yesterday (that I’ve seen anyway), because, first of all, he was able to stay on top of Hershey longer and I’m pretty sure I saw a little sumpin sumpin after he hopped out of the pool. He was certainly shaking his tail feathers a lot.

The only duck that has continuously dismissed his advances is Quinny. So far she wants nothing to do with him or his luv!

Yep they definitely make a sound and whistle grunt is a good way to describe it.
but I think they are pushing air through their air sacs or something different.. it is not the normal way they make sounds.

 

[Mimi13]

Three ducks on one leg and two on their bellies.
They sure do sleep a lot.

Oops, I just disturbed them smaking at sweat bees. I despise those things.

 

[Mimi13]

Yep they definitely make a sound and whistle grunt is a good way to describe it.
but I think they are pushing air through their air sacs or something different.. it is not the normal way they make sounds.

You’re right, it’s a different sound than any they make. I couldn’t begin to try to phonetically spell the way it sounds. Some sounds you can, but not this one.