Feeding the Ducks
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I want to have a discussion about feeding the ducks. Getting a loaf of bread and whiling away a relaxing afternoon feeding our water resistant feathered friends. Im wondering, is this just an English tradition? It seems so to me. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
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Gawd no. Americans do it all the time. Hell, migratory birds no longer bother migrating around here because A. it is a lot warmer than it used to be, and B. why bother, they have 100,000 people feeding them all the time.
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i believe naturalists are really trying to discourage people from doing so for this very reason...screws with the birds desire to migrate...and they need to!
that said, i remember many a saturday afternoon as a little girl, spent with my dad at the local pond....feeding the ducks......thanks for the reminder, the memory!
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I used to live in an apartment building and it had a pond with ducks. I used to feed them too, like the old ladies of the apartment building
There were different kinds of ducks, they were not all your average kind of pond duck. One of those "specials" ducks always wagged its tail and if you threw a piece of bread on it, the piece was catapulted away.
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I have fond memories of feeding the ducks in the Englischer Garten in Munich last year, the day I spent there was so great ... well, except, I don't have fond memories of the swan that attacked me (unprovoked I might add).
There's a guy on my street that always feeds the pigeons ... he's all grizzly looking, grey scraggly hair and beard ... has a headband ... I call him the pigeon messiah ... he's the jesus of pigeon feeders and they follow him everywhere, even if he doesn't have food for him.
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Ducks are cute little critters too, but I sense without a fixed memory that their over eager pursuit of my bread may have scared me when I was young. I've heard of council-led campaigns trying to stop people feeding the ducks as well.
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There's a park near San Francisco where the squirrels have gotten so used to humans (that have been feeding them), they come up and yank stuff out of your hands.
"Jennifer Packard told the San Jose Mercury about the latest attack. She said she had unwrapped a muffin during a picnic last week in Mountain View's Cuesta Park and had given it to her son, Andrew.
Quickly, a brown tree squirrel pounced, attacking the 4-year-old and wrestling with him for the muffin. The youngster was bitten and scratched as he ran screaming through the park with the squirrel still hanging onto him as he rolled desperately in the grass to end the attack."
ref. ( http://www.ktvu.com/news/9946672/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news )
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ducks eat for free at subway!
Where's Al Hitchcock when you need a new movie made? Quite the hilarious visual. My cats won't hesitate to chase dogs off, but they won't even think about messing with the squirrels.
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i do it all the time, check this vid out of me feeding hundreds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpibe9ML-c
and out of the hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAkmHES16xE
i love my feathered friends
I used to have geese and they ate out of my hand too!
They didn't really like other people, though
Awesome videos.
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I used to do that with my son so I don't think it's just an English thing.
The ducks we fed would gobble up the food quick though! How do you make half a loaf of bread last a whole afternoon?
If it's bad for people, isn't it bad for them too?
Or is the deal to use whole wheat now?
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You're aware that "feeding the ducks" is a euphemism, right harmless?
Having acknowledged that and being delighted to discover that this really is a thread about feeding the ducks, I have to say it's one of my favorite things to do! I used to lived across from a park that had a duck pond and we would always take our stale bread and crusts over and feed them. I love watching them swimming about and diving to catch the bit that got away! And all the quacking! I've even got pics of me feeding the ducks in a little shopping courtyard by St Paul's Cathedral.
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We don't have many ducks here in the desert. Oh, and I'd avoid feeding the coyotes!
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http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/faq/faq2.html#eat
9. What do ducks eat?
That depends on the ducks species and life stage. Different species have different diets. As well, ducks often eat different things at different ages, depending on what their bodies need.
For example, mallard ducks will eat a variety of foods, such as seeds, roots and stems of bulrushes, millet and smartweed, as well as waste grain like barley from farmers fields. Theyve also been known to eat mosquito larvae, midges and mayfly nymphs.
A different example is common mergansers. These birds usually eat minnows, game fish, trout, salmon and some amphibians.
10. Ive heard that feeding ducks bread is bad. What should I feed them?
DUC does not recommend feeding ducks. It increases the chances of negative human/wildlife encounters, reduces the ducks foraging instincts and can make them dependent on people for food.
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OMG, Jeanie, I didn't know it was a euphemism. :eek:
What's it standing in for?
I don't know about the bread you eat, but mine is not processed.
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I'm lucky enough to have a duck pond next to where I work. I'm often found sitting having/sharing my lunch with the little wing'ed creatures in the summer. We also have a heron and two Canadian geese who visit every year, I've named them Harry, Terwillager and Maureen
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Well I've always known it as a euphemism for male masturbation.
Thankfully this thread is about feeding the ducks in the literal sense.
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A pastime not recommended . . .
I dont get it?
Feeding the ducks/swans/geese/pigeons/squirrels/tuataras is in my opinion one of the few truly life-affirming activities left in this world.
Oh, and sex.
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Ok, I think it has something to do with standing behind the person feeding the ducks. Imagine them sitting on a park bench with the bag of bread in their lap, reaching into the bag and throwing bits of bread to the ducks. The hand action?
That's the only explanation I got for it reefer but it's a well known euphemism around here.
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Ok theres now a voyeristic slant on it, I'm freaked I offiially dont like this euphemism.:eek: