Go anywhere near a popular duck feeding spot and you’re sure to find people with huge bags of bread – sometimes whole loaves that they must have bought especially for the occasion. Bread is of course bad for ducks, but even if they were bags of good duck food, they could then have too much …
Wild duck food portion control – quack snack, not feathered feast! Read More »
There was some good intent by whoever left this mess beside the canal – there’s lettuce and cucumber which is much better for ducks than bread. But there is still white bread, it’s all in large chunks which isn’t so good for small ducks…and, well, it has just been dumped. That’s likely to attract vermin and is …
Some ducks on the Stourbridge Canal greatly enjoying a bread-free snack!
Please don’t feed them bread! There’s some simple tips to feed wild ducks responsibly here >
A few weeks ago I went to explore a duck-feeding spot of my childhood – Swanshurst Park in South Birmingham. It wasn’t a happy homecoming. I found just two little mallards, cowering for cover amidst dozens and dozens of Canada Geese, with a very large flock of seagulls thrown in for good measure. The pavement …
Time to stop overfeeding the geese of Swanshurst Park? Read More »
