TNFR...So you all post pics of kids and Grandies...I have wildlife!

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orchid

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Please meet Blackie. She showed up here February of 05 and decided that we will do just fine, thank you very much. She comes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in between. Loves Romaine lettuce and corn and eats out of our hand. If she had her way she would move in. After hurricane Wilma tore off the screen room she slept up against the sliding glass all night peeping regularly. It was 2 weeks before we were able to get the orange netting to put around the pool and we had a terrible time keeping her out of the pool AND the house. Still do! Last week, getting prepared for Hurricane Ernesto, the door (the only part of the screen room left) was open and....yep, there she was. Standing at the sliding glass door asking to come in and before I could direct her out she was in the pool. Party!!!http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/?action=view&current=P1010005.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch20

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orchid, How beautiful. We have a Mallard Duck problem every spring trying to make a home in my ...>

pool and we must be very persistent and keep them away from the pool or they would be in the pool and make it a permanent home.

We also have Deer, Wild Turkeys, Black Bear, Coyotes
and much more in the yard daily. I back up to a State Forest.

 
I just realized that I didn't say that Blackie is a Black Australian Swan. How'd she get to Florida?

 
There is no doubt in our minds that she has been hand raised. She is>>>

just toooo friendly and is drawn to people and especially young children's' voices. She is very "talkative" and when she honks she sounds like a fog horn. Too funny! And it only took about 6 months to be able to call her "she"...she built her first nest on the side of our house and laid eggs. Now that happens about every 3 months. Always lays 6. I won't even go into Fl. Fish & Wildlife explaining to me how to make fake eggs to replace and take away or the trip to the Vet...LOL Oh, and she flies in and out at will but always returns. Gorgeous when she's flying!

 
Orchid, she's beautiful.

I LOVE black swans!!!! They are so mysterious. I am inclined to agree that she was someone's pet. Take good care of her.

 
Yes Richard, she is. And the gut wrencher for us is that we have made>>>

the mental commitment to move to the Atlanta area. We are having a lot of trouble with that but the cost of home insurance is just unreasonable now. Sad!

 
Oh if I could!!! They just don't have the lakes and canals like we do here. And she needs water.

 
She loves you! I'm a bird and wildlife lover. I sit outside at night

on my patio and hand-feed raccoons and skunks and 'possums. I always have a 5-lb bag of peanuts for the squirrels and chipmunks. My neighbors hate me. They have peanut shells in their gardens. Oh, well. Most times I'd rather have animals like me than humans.

 
And I agree with Orchid. She was probably hand-raised and flew off.

I hand-fed 2 baby starlings. I found them in the back yard still in their shells. Their nest had probably been attacked by those nasty bluejays. So, I went to the pet store and bought baby bird food and fed it to them at the end of a toothpick. They grew up healthy and they loved me. We never caged them except at night. Yes, we had a little bit of bird doo doo, but I thought it was better than diaper doo doo.

Anyway, I didn't get their wings clipped. Stupid me. We used to play outside on the lawn before they could really fly, but one day they flew off. I looked for them and called them for hours and hours and they never found their way home. It broke my heart because they didn't know how to live outside of the house. I prayed they would find someone like me who would care for them.

 
Gay, they do the same in our pool, until we take the winter cover off. After

the winter, that water is full of all kinds of gunk that the ducks love. We just let them stay as they have always disappeared when the pool is cleaned and the good and heavily chlorinated new water arrives.

 
Be careful that she doesn't learn to knock on the windows with her beak at 5 am. Our mallards

know when they want breakfast and it is considerably earlier than when we are prepared to provide it.

 
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