The Ducks Have Returned: (

BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 18:29
Last edited 24/08/2024 - 15:11 by 1 other user

Further to a prior post, we have been free of ducks from our pool for several years now. A few weeks ago, we noticed that they have returned, and started aplashing around in the pool, leaving the usual filth around the pool, and no doubt in the pool.

We introduced Magnesium to the pool about the same time they 'moved on', but it was also during the really hot weather we experienced, where I assume nearby ponds/creeks etc dried up.

Now some have returned.

I read about a motion sensitive sprinkler system with quite a few positive reviews.

Any ideas, that are safe etc, that don't require a dog?

Home & Garden Ducks

Comments

  • Pecan on 23/08/2024 - 18:35
    +2

    Got a pool cover?

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 18:53

      We have a pool net (similar), but painful to install.

      Even worse, our Zodiac Pool cleaner has died, but looking at Aipen, who also have aSolar powered pool skimmer.

      • Nugs on 24/08/2024 - 10:30

        no pool cover?
        how much water do you replace over summer?
        .

  • spackbace on 23/08/2024 - 18:56
    +4

    That's ducked

  • Shoocat on 23/08/2024 - 19:01
    +2

    Giant inflatable crocodile? Scare them off!

  • c64 on 23/08/2024 - 19:19
    +5

    back fill the pool with dirt

  • Iwantthebestprice on 23/08/2024 - 19:25

    It’s their natural habitat, let them be at ☮️

    Or get a few dogs, that will do it.

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:06
      +1

      And pick up all the dog pooh. No thanks. We have poodles across the road.

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:07

      Its not THEIR NATURAL HABITAT.

  • payton on 23/08/2024 - 19:29
    +3

    BewareOfTheDogDucks

  • AustriaBargain on 23/08/2024 - 19:30
    -1

    Get a dog.

  • randomusername2017 on 23/08/2024 - 19:45
    +1

    Ducks can't read?

  • pinsanity on 23/08/2024 - 19:47
    +8

    Roast duck is delicious.

    • altomic on 24/08/2024 - 01:20
      +1

      Rabbit season

  • Randxyz123 on 23/08/2024 - 19:50
    +4

    You could try wildlife services in your area? See if you can get someone professional to relocate them to a nearby pond or river. We had this issue as well. I didn’t really care. Just gotta pressure hose the pool area once a week. Pool cleaner and auto chemical thing takes care of the $hit in the pool.

    It is a body of water, I quite enjoyed seeing them land and chill in the pool every week.

  • Gunnar on 23/08/2024 - 20:38
    -2

    A cat? Preferably one that can actually hunt?

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:08
      +3

      We have 2, but we keep them inside.

      • gyrex on 24/08/2024 - 08:35
        +4

        I know this is off-topic but thanks for being a responsible cat owner. Nothing irks me more than entitled women who think their cats should have the freedom to roam around neighbourhoods to kill all the local native fauna.

        • morse on 24/08/2024 - 08:38
          +2

          There are entitled men who do this too. I can think of two that I know personally off the top of my head.

  • Gunnar on 23/08/2024 - 20:41

    Also just remember this:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=125&v=ZyVF1glhAfk&feature=yout…

  • theHMASfriendship on 23/08/2024 - 20:59
    +4

    Duck’s sake not again.

    This would drive me quackers.

  • pegaxs on 23/08/2024 - 22:22
    +2

    OMG! Now I want a pool so the ducks will come to my house!! I love ducks… we have local wood ducks the live at the side of the road… but I understand that they can make a hella mess with their arse blasters. And if these ducks here are anything to go by, cats don’t phase them either.

    Ducks are a pretty DGAF type of animal. They aren’t phased by much. You can make sure that there is nothing for them to eat laying around. Hit them with the hose spray. Generally make being there uncomfortable for them and they might leave.

    Our neighbourhood ducks tend to only be here for a few weeks/months and then move on. So they probably won’t move in like those arsehole Indian Myna birds do…

    • DashCam AKA Rolts on 23/08/2024 - 23:58

      Are you our Olympic Skateboarding gold medalist?

  • Guybrush57 on 23/08/2024 - 22:31
    +5

    Pic of these cute ducks in your pool please

  • bdl on 24/08/2024 - 00:14
    +1

    For Ducks' Sake

  • morse on 24/08/2024 - 08:36

    Pet python.

    But more seriously I wonder if it’s got to do with your pool cleaner breaking. They might not have liked the noise and movement of it.

  • saltypete on 24/08/2024 - 08:46

    I’ll believe times are actually tough in OZ when the feral ducks we see all over the place start to disappear…….

    • mapax on 24/08/2024 - 08:56

      Wild ducks or feral ducks? The ferals are regularly culled due to being non indigenous and particularly so at the moment with the avian flu being the current thing.

  • stickingly on 24/08/2024 - 09:43

    The ducks in my pool took no notice of the dog. She would bark at them and they would calmly swim to the other side, she'd run around and they would swim back. Repeat x1000. The cat had no interest in the ducks
    It was a game to them.

  • 82norm on 24/08/2024 - 09:46

    Air rifle.

  • spc12go on 24/08/2024 - 13:31

    Call National Park and Wild Life. They will send someone to catch them and set them into the wild.

    And hopefully they won’t return.

  • 2esc on 24/08/2024 - 13:51
    +1

    Ducks like pools and dams with not much vegetation around them as its harder for cats and foxs to hide waiting for a opportunity. My mum has a dam with 2 islands(3 house block size) where she has planted a large number of native trees and shrubs around over the last 30 years. The ducks might visit but they then sleep on the neighbouring farm dam (no trees) though i think they might nest in the box thorns sometimes on this farmers property.

  • Baysew on 24/08/2024 - 15:38
    +2

    Someone tell Tony Soprano.

  • Kiro on 24/08/2024 - 15:54

    Means your water quality is more akin for ducks. Nuke it with chlorine or salt and presto they will go.

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