Spring 2017: Brood #1 hatched!
We have had quite a day! Quakie had been sitting on her eggs for 35 days and we got increasingly worried over the last week, not knowing if any would […]
Observations on intraspecies and inter-species communication (how ducks talk to each other and with humans)
We have had quite a day! Quakie had been sitting on her eggs for 35 days and we got increasingly worried over the last week, not knowing if any would […]
The weather at this time of the year here can be pretty unpredictable. We had a spate of warm weather in March – it was like summertime! Then April came, […]
Tipsy Returns Home! We received a nice surprise this morning in the form of Quakie’s sweet-faced and good-natured sister, Tipsy. She was the last to leave us in 2015 and […]
From her first appearance in February and until the day Quakie decided to nest in our garden this year, she had acted rather distant towards us, not allowing us to […]
A few days ago, I noticed something strange about Frankie. If this drake were indeed Frankie! Quakie’s current beau – who has been with her since she returned two weeks […]
The duckies are in full flight-training mode now. Basic training, just a few days ago, consisted of flying a few inches off the ground for a few metres before landing, […]
Time since hatch day: 7 weeks and 2 days The ducks are growing bigger and hungrier every day. Our supply of vegetables is depleted very quickly these days. Just between […]
The ducklings are exactly 7 weeks old today. To me they seem equivalent to humans in their mid-teens; they are eating all the time, their voices are changing, they want […]
I got up late today, at almost 10 am. The ducks always seem to know when we wake – they can see us through the windows or perhaps hear us. […]
The ducks are almost 7 weeks old and their flight feathers seem quite fully formed, but are not quite ready to fly yet. They however seem to feel the need […]