We have five mallards that call our farm home.
They are not wild.
I raised them in my backyard in town
before we moved them to the farm.
I am asked all the time why they don't just fly away.
They really don't know where else to go.
Their food and shelter is here.
They come up every morning and evening to be fed.
Otherwise they fly between two close ponds. We have other ponds on the farm, within a half mile from the house,
but the ducks don't fly to them.
They have seperated themselves into two family units,
one male/female pair and one female/two males.
The one extra male had a female companion last year
but she did not make it through the winter.
I am hoping all of these make it
to have little mallards this spring.
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