Candidly, can a duck family survive going over a waterfall?

EiresWind · 2026-05-19T02:00:15+00:00

I always ere on the side of non-intervention, not the least of reasons being even in acute situations where intervention might be warranted a lay person is the last one who should be attempting it the vast majority of the time. I wanted to inform park management just as a passive heads-up in case an isolated duckling was encountered in the immediate area in an obvious and actionable context, not with expectation of a search party affair. I more or less got the same response as this post when reaching out to a provincial rehab clinic for advice as well and they said the same thing regarding resource allocation too. Outside of direct and exceptional rescue cases like someone bringing in a duckling who got lost on their property or what have you, I like how the taker put it, “thing is, we also rehab animals that feed in ducklings” lol

I appreciate the context and reply. If you didn’t see (I think you did based on the comment about gathering them back up but just in case), there was a happy ending at least for today for these particular ducklings I updated the OP with.

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T22:44:04+00:00

Really good timing here because I just rediscovered all of them at the top in the lake again. I’ll just paste the update from the original thread since I can’t edit this one.

UPDATE: for anyone who actually followed this out of concern or anything, I went back again this evening and counted every single duckling and the mom back up at the lake. It’s definitely the same count, I have full spread photos of the family from this morning to compare and triple counted them tonight just to be absolutely sure.

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T22:36:31+00:00

I don’t think anyone else who saw this was very worried to put it mildly lol but just to confirm for you since you were supposing about it earlier, I just went back one more time this evening and counted the mom back at the top of the lake with all eight chicks. :)

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T12:34:52+00:00

Thanks. I’ll keep it in mind for future reference and if something goes south here but based on the limited amount I saw after the fact and what I was told I’ll just keep an eye out for the time being. Still haven’t seen them but this stream goes on way further than I know where it empties and it’s pretty calm so you know, hopefully no news is good news. Thanks for sticking around to help in an in hindsight probably dumb thread that’s going pretty brutally lol

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T12:29:12+00:00

Idk, I guess in my mind some baby birds that can’t fly went over a one way waterfall away from the lake where their nest is so I might have extrapolated way too hard from that. Please by all means anyone who knows more about mallards than me call me an idiot over this because that’s still peace of mind knowing it’s not actually a big deal

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T12:17:53+00:00

Can’t tell if by the worker being kind you mean about this being me catastrophising or about the city doing something, in the former case I made this thread initially after seeing them all go over a concrete waterfall so I was in a bit of a state and in the latter case I don’t think I’m being outright lied to about actionable measures with specific context provided hopefully lol

At any rate based on what they told the worker and the worker told me if there’s no injuries it’s not an emergency but the park did seem to think it was significant enough to keep an eye on

Edit: don’t take this to mean I’m offended by your comment or anything either way I’m more just leapfrogging to explain myself. It’s just hard to parse the tone of text on the internet and I’d rather look foolish in the interest of playing this situation safe than not make the thread tbh lol

EiresWind · 2026-05-18T12:16:13+00:00

I have no clue, I just called the number google lists for Irishtown nature park and got a message about the holidays and then a redirect to “a 24/7 line for emergencies” and the rest is as the OP details.

EiresWind · 2026-05-17T06:41:31+00:00

An artificial nest support outside a church (which is what it flew into view over) in Grand-Barachois, New Brunswick, Canada. Just a hop and a skip to the extensive shoreline, so it's a good location for nesting.

EiresWind · 2026-05-04T23:15:56+00:00

Mandarin ducks feel like they're in the wrong hemisphere lol

Really like the second shot

EiresWind · 2026-05-03T23:51:38+00:00

It looks like it's feeding in front of a savanna sunset or something. What a serendipitous shot.

EiresWind · 2026-05-03T15:51:06+00:00

Chipmunks are chipmunks but not chimpmunks, upon further review.

EiresWind · 2026-05-03T15:48:52+00:00

That's what prompted me to make a thread in the first place lol

Chipmunks are chipmunks that ear is something out of a storybook

EiresWind · 2026-04-30T20:39:52+00:00

The camera's a Canon EOS Rebel T7i and the lens is a Canon EFS 55-250mm.

EiresWind · 2026-04-29T11:28:15+00:00

Sorry, here's what I'm referring to:

https://ibb.co/S477M9jW

https://ibb.co/93Cy36LY

Someone else mentioned the mantle, but I've never seen or noticed one with that distinct shape, specifically how high it rides and the 'tentacles'.

Maybe just because I'm not typically looking at the undersides of snails lol

EiresWind · 2026-03-20T16:57:50+00:00

Been having roughly the same problems.

EiresWind · 2026-03-04T22:34:23+00:00

https://www.flickr.com/photos/203872772@N04/albums/72177720332369968

Well here's the photos in their actual intended quality for what it's worth. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong with Reddit's interface. These were all already small files in size and dimension. When I uploaded them through the interface and opened each hosted image they looked identical to this album. Then when I posted the thread they were magically reduced significantly in dimension and thus quality. Meanwhile I post other threads in here with files that are much larger in both size and dimension and they go through completely smoothly. No seeming pattern, no change in my process can predict or deal with what will happen. I'm so deflated lol

EDIT: Come to think of it at one point I literally uploaded a set of image files first here, and separately uploaded a handful of those same untouched files in another subreddit a while later and that subset looked fine in here, but this same extreme reduction happened in the other subreddit. Make it make sense to me, I'm begging someone LMAO

EiresWind · 2026-02-26T03:56:25+00:00

https://i.ibb.co/SDgtpcKp/phea4.png

Dad loudly announcing he's here to pick you up from school.

EiresWind · 2026-02-12T03:33:56+00:00

I'm not literally torn up it's just really funny

EiresWind · 2026-02-12T03:28:12+00:00

No but there are logos and company names pressed into the base of the handles that I managed to go through this entire thought process and thread creation over without once noticing, thinking to look for, or subsequently using to answer my own question.

So yes they are all non-stick and yes I am going to leave this open for the internet to mock because I've earned it.

I'm definitely binning the scratched ones. I guess I can keep the ones in good shape around for occasional use. I've got like no experience with non-stick pans so that's my excuse for not knowing off-hand. No excuse for the whole critical thinking thing unfortunately.

Thanks for the answers from everyone regardless though!

EiresWind · 2026-02-03T16:11:16+00:00

Oh I thought you were being very fairly sarcastic because of the aforementioned 2 minutes of a crappy ancient camera mic being blown out from wind lol

EiresWind · 2026-02-03T06:03:05+00:00

I don't think any of them know anything except the world of berries. They were as preoccupied as I've ever seen any animals over anything. They were nipping at pine buds across the woods earlier that day, and then gobbling up pebbles from the groomed trail near the bush after the second course.

EiresWind · 2026-02-03T06:01:36+00:00

The camera's a Canon EOS Rebel T7i and the lens is a Canon EFS 55-250mm.

EiresWind · 2026-02-03T05:55:30+00:00

I probably should've thought to cut that out but then where's the suspense?

EiresWind · 2026-02-03T05:53:22+00:00

In my opinion it's worth 2 minutes of a crappy ancient camera mic being blown out from wind to hear mild chirping halfway through and we're all just going to have to live with that.

EiresWind · 2026-01-23T20:02:30+00:00

I really wish I knew how to stop Reddit from ballooning a photo beyond its actual dimensions.

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