Where Oh Where Have My Little Ducks Gone?

Oh man, we’ve got BIG trouble here at Wren’s Landing and Pizzeria. That’s Trouble that starts with a T that rhymes with D, which stands for Duck, which we don’t have around here very often anymore. Same thing with the geese. The geese took off before the baby was born in September, so I figured they were just being bratty because I couldn’t go feed them every day. (Parents Magazine covers sibling rivalry, but not goose rivalry. Maybe I should ask the Croc Hunter guy.) When one has a newborn and a 2 year old and no Mary Poppins in the house, lots of things get neglected. The ducks still came around though, until the last week or so.

You may be thinking, “they got out of the habit of coming round since there wasn’t always corn out back”. True, that’s very possible. Then again, this happened last winter at about this time –first the geese disappeared and then the ducks took off a couple weeks later. A few days after the ducks skipped town, we got the first of 31 inches of snow in a single month. It was in the 60s last week and now the weather’s getting colder and the ducks are gone. If those critters know something that Willard Scott on “The Today Show” doesn’t, I sure wish they’d let me in on it! That way I could stock up on necessities like diapers, formula and chocolate.

Maybe there’s an animal version of The Weather Channel – I just don’t know if I buy that instinct stuff. You always hear about animals predicting earthquakes and everybody knows about caterpillars becoming extra fuzzy before a hard winter. How do we know there isn’t a critter meteorologist out there looking at the national map and saying, “there’s a cold front heading for the Midwest in the next couple of weeks – you ducks better pack up and head south now!” But how do they get that channel…they must have an awesome satellite dish. Come to think of it, I always wondered why moose had antlers - they’re not antlers, they’re antennae!

I don’t know what else to do so I’m making more of an effort to make the daily corn run. I wait until the kids are napping and make the mad dash. There were a couple of ducks out back today, so maybe they’re coming back. Either that, or they forgot to turn off the iron before they left town.

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