Ducklings!
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingLet's have some ducklings!
Let me preface this by saying: Don't feed ducks bread. It's unhealthy for them as well as the lake (if you are hell-bent on feeding them, and ducks looking as cute as they do and these birds being tame, anyway I can understand that, either use feeding pellets, or stuff like grapes or peas). The ducks on the Maschsee in Hannover are being fed by the students from the school across the street as well as the scores of visitors to the lake that come every day and they're so used to humans they're practically tame, more so than any other inner city birds I've ever seen. They'll even take food directly from people's hands.
And now on to the mallards and their offspring.
That dark shape is one of the giant-ass carps who live in the lake. What the ducks don't eat, the carps do, and sometimes they also send ducks zooming off in a flurry when they've mistaken the odd duck foot for food.
The Maschsee is rapidly becoming my favourite place in Hannover. It's around the corner from where I work, you can swim in it if you're so inclined and aren't scared off by the prospect of coming face to face with said giant-ass carps, and it has ducklings and I suspect all manner of interesting insects in the greenery on the opposite shore.
What I said about tame. This duck was about to cut out the middleman.
Just a quick reminder what a feeding duck usually looks like.
Aforementioned giant-ass carps.
Let me preface this by saying: Don't feed ducks bread. It's unhealthy for them as well as the lake (if you are hell-bent on feeding them, and ducks looking as cute as they do and these birds being tame, anyway I can understand that, either use feeding pellets, or stuff like grapes or peas). The ducks on the Maschsee in Hannover are being fed by the students from the school across the street as well as the scores of visitors to the lake that come every day and they're so used to humans they're practically tame, more so than any other inner city birds I've ever seen. They'll even take food directly from people's hands.
And now on to the mallards and their offspring.
That dark shape is one of the giant-ass carps who live in the lake. What the ducks don't eat, the carps do, and sometimes they also send ducks zooming off in a flurry when they've mistaken the odd duck foot for food.
The Maschsee is rapidly becoming my favourite place in Hannover. It's around the corner from where I work, you can swim in it if you're so inclined and aren't scared off by the prospect of coming face to face with said giant-ass carps, and it has ducklings and I suspect all manner of interesting insects in the greenery on the opposite shore.
What I said about tame. This duck was about to cut out the middleman.
Just a quick reminder what a feeding duck usually looks like.
Aforementioned giant-ass carps.
