The Quack Shack

[Luv Ducks]

It looks like a female Mallard but it is not there all of the time, it comes and goes. It seems to be large for a Mallard but since it can come and go I am sure it must be fine.

Today it had friends with it, there were six of them in the water having a ball with everything thawed.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

The fog was so thick here that it made it hard to see to drive to work and then do the bus too. We all did well though so we were blessed. We got a lot of rain this afternoon and will get more this week. The ducks were happy about that. Tonight when I went out to put them in their locked pen they were all taking a bath and enjoying their water. It's nice to have the bath water not frozen right now.

I managed to go up to the duck's pond yesterday late afternoon and found that the ducks have activated the overflow pipe to prevent a catastrophic flooding event. Just a month ago it was just a mud-puddle…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Today it had friends with it, there were six of them in the water having a ball with everything thawed.

The duck's mallard friends were back this morning…
All 25 of them came to pick up breakfast!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy
Twinkling Sunshine Tuesday
to Everybody!​

As the Romanians say »Soare cu dinti!« (Sun with teeth) today; sunny but uncomfortably cold.
Great achievement here: We filed the I-90 forms to renew our green-cards and USCIS's AI reported »no anomalies or issues with your application«
So it looks like the duck-parents are here to stay.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy
🌧 Wet Weather Wednesday 🌧
to Everybody​

More rain here - the pond-ducks did not even bother to come down for breakfast in the morning.
I assume the hill is too slippery, though the duck-house flock managed to slip up-hill and disappeared into the pond…
Right now i could claim that i neither have ducks nor mallards around - just crows and cardinals…

 

[Jenbirdee]

Happy
🌧 Wet Weather Wednesday 🌧
to Everybody​

More rain here - the pond-ducks did not even bother to come down for breakfast in the morning.
I assume the hill is too slippery, though the duck-house flock managed to slip up-hill and disappeared into the pond…
Right now i could claim that i neither have ducks nor mallards around - just crows and cardinals…

lots of rain here too - i am also slipping up hill

 

[Canadian Wind]

Been mild here the past few days but it's dropping today with an expected low of of less than -20 on the weekend.

I'm not a big fan of roller coasters to begin with, but much less when the temperatures jump on board!!!

 

[Jenbirdee]

Been mild here the past few days but it's dropping today with an expected low of of less than -20 on the weekend.

I'm not a big fan of roller coasters to begin with, but much less when the temperatures jump on board!!!

wait wait Less than MINUS TWENTY ? i have never been in anything less than 0 - I am thankful for that - i just wonder how does it feel to your face and eyeballs and your breathing like do your lungs freeze on the inside? I just try to imagine that I really don’t wanna ever find out actually.

 

[Jenbirdee]

well, now that I have a very handsome well-behaved Drake , after almost 10 years of not getting along with any of the previous Drake’s that came through-
Now I am worried about his little corkscrew because I see girls trying to bite it as he’s jumping off of other girls and running away… and my guess is perhaps this is how corkscrew injuries occur?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

well, now that I have a very handsome well-behaved Drake , after almost 10 years of not getting along with any of the previous Drake’s that came through-
Now I am worried about his little corkscrew because I see girls trying to bite it as he’s jumping off of other girls and running away… and my guess is perhaps this is how corkscrew injuries occur?

I absolutely believe this happens. Looks just like a juicy worm to them. I had a call drake with a prolapse a few months ago and the end of it definitely looked as if it had been bitten and bitten hard. It took weeks to heal with daily drake molestations, cleaning it and applying prep H and poking it back in. The injured tip turned all purple and brown and was obviously not going to heal. I ended up enlisting some help from my Sis in law to hold him and we used one of those little clear elastics to band off the dead tissue. After a few days the bad part dried up and I was able to snip it off, clean it and get the remaining corkscrew to stay in.
It worked! He's better than ever now. He is evwn back to using whats left of it.
No telling if he will be able to fertilize or not, but he is one of my favorites so i am so glad he didn't get sick and die on me from infection.