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As I mentioned before, spring has brought an abundance of showers to my little corner of Maine. As proof…. I offer the new visitors who dropped by this week.
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A pair of mallard ducks who’ve made our backyard puddle their temporary home.
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We had ducks as pets years ago and I’ve always enjoyed watching them. They’re quite comical.
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But this pair is wild and flies off if they spot me. So for now, this is as close as my zoom lens will get me.
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River's world..... 
I would fly off if YOU spotted me too!!! LOL
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No you wouldn’t. I’d have carrot cake…
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Ducks as pets? Don’t they get awfully noisy?
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We had two. A white drake and a mallard female. They were adorable and not that noisy .
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I too had pet (Pekin) ducks as a kid. Best pets ever — comical, adorable, and ‘low maintenance’ (food, water to drink/splash around in, and no need to be brought into the house in bad weather). The main concern is that Pekin ducks can’t fly and are easy prey for carnivorous animals, so their area must be predator-proofed with high chain-link fence with no space between the ground and the bottom of the fence.
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We made a pen and house for ours and put them in every night. They could fly, but it was still safer.
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P.S. The female gave us an egg to eat almost every morning….though the female (not the male) is the loud ‘quaker.’
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No eggs from ours.
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I feel like I’m walking on a giant sponge when the dogs and I wander through the fields here in VT. Lots of rain, and snow (this morning), with ground too saturated to take it all in. So saturated that some water making it into my old basement through a crack in the foundation (arrgghhh).
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There’s a river in back of us, we always have some seepage in the spring.
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You have all the great wildlife River aka Marlin Perkins of Maine. Well, except for a certain red bitch who shall remain nameless.
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That’s wildlife I could do without. At least the rest of them don’t keep trying to move in.
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Maybe Hubs’ next retirement project should be a pond…
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Don’t laugh, but he’s often thought of putting one in…
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You get a lot of rain, ducks show up in your backyard. We get a lot of rain and alligators show up in our backyard.
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Yours don’t make as much noise, I’ll give you that.
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One noise: Chomp. Very audible if you are up close.
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I’m close enough, thanks.
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