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| Missy May 20th at Duck Haven pond. fully healed and beautiful |
Miracle Missy and Mister, Photo Dump from 5/20/2026 to 5/25/2026
Missy and Mister appeared on April 4th 2026 in our front yard, they greeted us each morning when we returned from walking Beau. They took a few dips in the pool and wandered the yard and since the pool was a mess from lack of care, I let them swim and did not shoo them away.
On April 27th, I found her injured so badly, I thought she would die, on that day the two young ducks, and I bonded. Since that day they have slept all night in Duck Haven Pond, AKA pool except for 1 night.
The daytime hours, they have routines and come and go, several times a day
Missy and Mister spend Siesta Time from 10 to 1, snuggled in the dappled shade next to the water bowl. Don't worry about the dirt in the water, they put it their as soon as I put fresh in it. Root dirt and weeds and drop in the water.
Mister is in the first 3 photo, but hard to see, the second one below you can see his head. Where ever Missy is, he is on guard or sleepy next to her.
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| In this photo she was looking me straight in the eyes and I was within touching distance, but I restrain myself, I want them to be wild and wise, not everyone loves them |
Missy's Bodyguard, Mister, ON DUTY, watching for danger, while she bathed and fluffs and flutters her wings. He love her as much as I do.
On May 24th I had been watching them out the kitchen window and telling Bob she is 100 percent normal, walking, running, flying, swimming, and she healed in 25 days. All I did for her was be sure they were safe and not harmed, a Safe Haven to heal.
I burst into laughter when I checked out the window and she was in one of her FOUR water bowls, asleep with head under wing, on one leg.I needed these ducks, they needed me, we had the perfect Pond, it has algae, bugs, leaves for them to eat, no human gets in the pond, Beau is one in a million because he doesn't bother them. He only tries to sniff them if they are in his path, and they run to the pool and wait for him to go back inside.
Our yard is a perfect bird haven. Observing that they take dirt and put in in the water bowls, I googled to find out why ducks eat dirt and found that All birds, from chickens, duck and crows, eat grit. they swallow food whole, it goes to gizzard and they need grit mixed with water and mud to swallow to process their food.
the reason we have 4 bowls, 2 for Birds and 2 For my Babies. I observed a red wing black bird and a crow, sitting on her only bowl of water, dipping dirt in like she did and researched again, and Yes, all birds need access to grit and water.
We are in a 6 year drought! the pool level is not high enough for birds. I added plastic flat containers of water for the birds and now I can watch the birds dip dirt in those. The drought turned out Backyard into weeds, dirt, small rocks, and the pool is green with algae, which makes a perfect Duck Haven Pond.
I do not let other ducks stay, only Missy and Mister. I do not feed them, the yard is a smorgasbord.
I am happy they appear to be to young to have little ducks, because, not for lack of trying, their are still no eggs in a nest. I believe they are juvenile male/female and too young to make me a grandmother. 😁😁😁
Today is May 27, 2026 and five weeks, three days since she was injured and she is my miracle duck. They will leave someday and I am fine with that. I don't want them to have babies here because we have huge raccoons and they eat small birds. Yes, the food chain may get them elsewhere, but I don't want to see or know it. Twice I have held my breathe and prayed as they run across our busy street.
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