Feeding the Ducks

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harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
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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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    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?

    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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  • decides2dream
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    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.

    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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  • libragirl
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    People always feed the seagulls and then they are always dive bombing when your walking on the boardwalk. They have no fear of people.
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  • mole1985
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I want to have a discussion about feeding the ducks.

    I think you've got too much time on yer hands sonny :D
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  • Collin
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    No, people feed them here too!

    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 :D

    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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  • jimed14
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    I'll feed the ducks ... when I'm away at a lake or something, not a lot, but yeah, they certianly have lost some of the fear for humans when they come and take bread out fo your hand.

    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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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    jimed14 wrote:
    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.
    I'd choose a pigeon over a swan any day. So inhumane was the vendetta that former Mayor of London ken Livingstone launched against the pigeons, some of his quotes resembled nazi war-time propaganda, and the face fits the crime alright! I miss watching them waddle down the platform of Mile End tube, used to try and feed em' some of my daily twix.

    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.
  • Ledbetterman10
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    Niggas be feedin' ducks and shit
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  • Cosmo
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    libragirl wrote:
    People always feed the seagulls and then they are always dive bombing when your walking on the boardwalk. They have no fear of people.
    ...
    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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  • Model Roll Model
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    [size=+2]QUACK!!![/size]
  • roar
    roar Posts: 1,116
    "A duck loves bread but it does not have the capability to buy a loaf. That's the biggest joke on the duck ever."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPS5VmvqkY

    ducks eat for free at subway!
  • eyedclaar
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    Cosmo wrote:
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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 )

    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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  • restlesssoul
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    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?


    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


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  • Collin
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    restlesssoul wrote:
    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 :D

    Awesome videos.
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  • justam
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    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?

    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? ;)
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  • Jeremy1012
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    This thread makes me happy to be alive.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Are you supposed to feed ducks white bread?

    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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  • Jeanie
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    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?


    You're aware that "feeding the ducks" is a euphemism, right harmless? :p:D

    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. :) So I'm an International Duck Feeder! :D
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  • mca47
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    Fuck that!! The cost of bread these days...the ducks can go to hell!


    :D



    We don't have many ducks here in the desert. Oh, and I'd avoid feeding the coyotes!
  • Purple Puppy
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    I used to feed ducks and geese when I lived in Seattle. They come right up onto my lawn. I spent a whole box of Ritz, which I don't know if they have there. Do you have Doritos? Do you play the Doritos quest game? I'm stuck on puzzle 3.3. Even with help from the forums. http://doritosthequest.com/
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