So I walking in the backyard this morning and heard a weird sound... definitely a bird, but I couldn't determine what type. I wonder over to the pool and wouldn't you know it... 2 adult ducks. They weren't actually in the pool, just on the side. I also heard some kind of chirping kind of noise, didn't know what it was. Being wild ducks, I didn't want them to infect the pool with... whatever sort of disease they could be carrying, so I run towards them trying to scare them off but they didn't have a bar of it. Rather than flying off, one of them dives into the pool and the other stands his ground. Brave little fella I thought. So I grabbed the pool net. Nope... nothing. These 2 weren't leaving and they were ready for a fight.
I knew there was something more going on, and there was something keeping them there, so I walk to the other side of the pool and... son of a gun. 9 little ducklings were hiding in the area underneath the filter opening. Now they were there because they were obviously tired for treading water for goodness knows how many hours, and they were so small that they couldn't get out of the pool, they couldn't jump out. So I got a plank of wood, lay it down were the stairs were, and huddled them towards it with the net pole, and soon had all the little ducklings out to safety. Fast forward 7 hours (to now)... they are still there. They can't fly away. So I'm going to call some wildlife organisation that the RSPCA told me to call in these types of situations. My question... how on Earth could they have possibly get to the pool in the first place? It's clean, not murky, and the water is not chlorine, but salt.
Ducks don't lay their eggs in the water, and these little things can't fly, and I used the pool 5 days ago... so I'm figuring that maybe these things were born in my backyard... but the damn ducks were no where to be seen yesterday.
How old do ducks have to be before they fly?
