Why are my ducks looking at me so funny?!?!

[Nifty-Chicken]

Just a quick story: I was outside today and walked by our ducks and noticed that one was looking at me really funny. Her head was cocked totally to the side... I was wondering if something was wrong with her since she never looks at us like that.

Then I noticed the other 2 ducks doing the same thing. OH NO... it's contagious! Then it hit me... "DUH... they are looking up!"

So, I followed their gaze upward to see a hawk circling above.

 

[DuckLady]

They see more than we do. Sometimes I can barely see what they are looking at.

 

[Mahonri]

My hens will do that also when an airplane flies overhead.

 

[duckyfromoz]

I love seeing my whole flock look up at the same time- usually at a bird or plane... The cutest though- was a duck I used to have with only 1 eye - it would cock its head...then turn its head and do it with the side that had the eye...

Hope the hawk didnt stay around long.

 

[lovesduckies]

awee i love when they do that. soooo cute!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Not too worried about the hawks... all our girls are too fat for the ones we have around here, and they probably have plenty of easier things to eat.

 

[nettie]

mine do that with airplanes and seagulls. lol... Not many hawks here in chicago, that i've seen.... Our ducks once freaked out and hid in their dog house when a *gasp* newpaper flew in the air near by... so silly

 

[Mom 2em All]

My ducks do that too! Airplanes must look like very very BIG hawks!
I think they are so smart- they notice much things much faster than I do. I make a crappy rooster. They get real tall and skinny and have their heads turned, looking up and I realize that something is up there- ninety percent of the time it is a seagull or an airplane (I live less than two miles from the airport), but many times it is a hawk.

When they were little, every time an airplane came over to prepare for landing, they would run as fast as their waddle-feet would let them right next to me. Now though, they just become pencil-thin. lol.

 

[FenDruadin]

My ducks have gotten fat and lazy and hardly notice a thing. They don't have to--their protector goose does all their watching for them. Even the drakes are lazy about it now.

Oh, and they totally ignore airplanes anyway, because we live a mile south and directly under a runway for a major international airport. They'd never eat at all if they were gazing at airplanes every time one went overhead! lol

 

[chickboss]

I will never get enough of that look! LOL, they are so funny. I get it every time I go past a brooder. My older ducks do it in the yard of course, but the babies. They just look so wise when they do it. It's like the KNOW something...cracks me up! I missed it somewhere, what kind of ducks do you have?