Post by Cherry on Apr 15, 2011 7:52:46 GMT
I love ducks. Merlin that sounds right as there are lots of pheasants in the ditches, yet they come home to roost in the trees at night.
A few years ago, a Mallard was walking across the A10 with a single file of ducklings behind her. She got run over and the babies got confused and were running around her. The engineer got out of the car and took the dead mother to the edge of the road, but had trouble rounding up the ducklings. Unfortuately, the nest was on the edge of the road. Would you believe, on the other side cars still kept mowing them down. He phoned our vet friend who came and helped and she took them all back to her huge pond where they were happy and grew up to make a lot of ducks. She had to give some away at one point. He loves nature, so it was a horrible sight for him.
A few years ago, a Mallard was walking across the A10 with a single file of ducklings behind her. She got run over and the babies got confused and were running around her. The engineer got out of the car and took the dead mother to the edge of the road, but had trouble rounding up the ducklings. Unfortuately, the nest was on the edge of the road. Would you believe, on the other side cars still kept mowing them down. He phoned our vet friend who came and helped and she took them all back to her huge pond where they were happy and grew up to make a lot of ducks. She had to give some away at one point. He loves nature, so it was a horrible sight for him.
Cherry that was so sad, there are some very uncaring people around, I'm glad they managed to rescue at least some of them
