Show off your house ducks!

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Oh no that's scary!!Thank goodness she's home safe!

If it was a little duck like Shorty, I probably wouldn't have gotten her back - she is all sweetness and love and lap cuddles. Missy likes things her way. She will never be one to go with the program... Anyone who expected anything else from her would get a very unpleasant surprise. Like expecting a new baby and getting an overbearing mother in law instead... Probably why she is my (and the entire family's) favorite, and why she is the only bird with full roam of the house. She lives up to her name!

 

[marcelineduckie]

oh my amykins I just witnessed marceline trying to fly!:/ completely seen your video in my mind haha, she was flapping her wings and running! wish I would have gotten it on film

 

[Julie Birb]

It's not supposed to be, but Wobbles would yelp whenever he rolled onto his side, which happened often back then...sigh. But because they stuck out at right angles, they'd basically get bent backwards when it happened. 

LOL I love your description! Yes, she is indeed a bird, and he's a..Wobbles. He is a Wobbles. Kind of like I always call my derptastic cat Stupicabra a "missing link".

oh, right angles and yelping. Don't like that at all. Sweet little Wobs shouldn't a hadta gone thru that. Sometime way back on here I thought I read where ducks are born with it?? Ugh. But I know you guys know how to great the sweet birds when then have it.

Stupicabra is a hysterical name for a cat. It is very original. I take it then she is not a cat per se if she is the " missing link."

 

[Julie Birb]

oh my amykins I just witnessed marceline trying to fly!:/ completely seen your video in my mind haha, she was flapping her wings and running! wish I would have gotten it on film

Eeeeeeeeee, Marceline is a bird. Trying to fly. Sweetie.

 

[Amykins]

oh my amykins I just witnessed marceline trying to fly!

completely seen your video in my mind haha, she was flapping her wings and running! wish I would have gotten it on film

AHHHH that's the best, isn't it? They go up on tippy-toes and stare straight ahead like they're concentrating reeeeeal hard. I love it when they do that!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

AHHHH that's the best, isn't it? They go up on tippy-toes and stare straight ahead like they're concentrating reeeeeal hard. I love it when they do that!

Mine actually think they will be able to get some lift under their ginormous bodies.... Missy's sister is the top flyer of the yard. She got about 2 feet off the ground and traveled, at best, 3 feet. I'm sure all the other ducks were jealous of her spectacular high flying adventures, seeing as they put on that determined look, flap as hard as they can, and run around the yard like idiots...

 

[Julie Birb]

That was an adorable video - even though there was a period in my mind where I was in abject terror that she wouldn't stop!!!
Wobbles is from Mars and Bean is from Venus is about how I see it - they are both amazingly cute in their own special ways!

Spotty internet, and duck related panic of our own. I put Missy out in the afternoon to play with her friends, and when I went to put her in (she comes back in hours before the other birds), she was gone. She has a spot she goes out front under the lawn cart to await being let inside if she gets out of the back 40, which she has used since she was a tiny duckling. Nothing. No noise, no feathers, no alerts from the other birds. Shorty, who is small even by khaki campbell standards, was with her Friend Geese, and the goslings were with their sitters. Broad daylight. She is too big for most predators, being a tall, heavy duck, and only cars and large dogs or coyotes would have a shot at her. Nothing. We searched everywhere. She is very vocal as well. Not a sound. She is homed to the house. We left the garage door open. Nothing.
I plastered her onto social media (as I felt her disappearance was suspect to say the least). For the next day I wandered through the mud and rain looking for her. Last night, the geese gave a predator alert. We were out back in seconds with flashlights. Nothing. The hidden nests were still hidden and full of eggs. I headed out of the garage to shine the light across the property and heard a very soft greeting call. Under the lawn cart was Missy. Spotless despite two days of rain, and decidedly thirsty. I picked her up and immediately got her version of a hug - she wraps her head and neck against yours and presses in tightly. She's been inside overnight and all day. She is doing some calling for her friends, so I'll put her back out in her summer residence when I bring Shorty and her Friend Geese in.

I am pretty sure someone picked up the cute, friendly duck outside the house, and found themselves with a stubborn, panicked bird with a call that will blast eardrums from a mile away, returning her in the cover of darkness. The geese don't alert to birds they know, and they are familiar with Missy....

aAaaargh, scary about Missy. Thank gawd she is back home safe. What an epic. She needs a talking to.

 

[Julie Birb]

If it was a little duck like Shorty, I probably wouldn't have gotten her back - she is all sweetness and love and lap cuddles. Missy likes things her way. She will never be one to go with the program... Anyone who expected anything else from her would get a very unpleasant surprise. Like expecting a new baby and getting an overbearing mother in law instead... Probably why she is my (and the entire family's) favorite, and why she is the only bird with full roam of the house. She lives up to her name!

sounds as though her ways ensure her survival.

 

[Julie Birb]

Mine actually think they will be able to get some lift under their ginormous bodies.... Missy's sister is the top flyer of the yard. She got about 2 feet off the ground and traveled, at best, 3 feet. I'm sure all the other ducks were jealous of her spectacular high flying adventures, seeing as they put on that determined look, flap as hard as they can, and run around the yard like idiots...

so cute that they do that. And funny too.

 

[Mamaduck2]

Darnit it wont let me add a video. I recorded them in the bath, as both of them now have their quacks mixed in with their peeps... i think they may both be girls but i still think cookie is a boy.. the darker one. I think im just trying to will one a male as two loud mouths will be fun. lol