So I was looking through the kitchen window and I saw a family of ducks (momma + babies) feeding on some bird food in my backyard. So, I did what any man would do and decided to capture one of the babies, either to raise him as my own or eat him depending on his attitude toward the situation.
I sneaked up on them with a strainer in one hand, a paper plate in the other as they were feeding. They spotted me and started making a run for it. I managed to capture one of the babies under the strainer, then scooped him up and used the plate to trap him. The momma and her babies fled and reconveined at another location about 50m away.
But it wasn’t over! The momma came stomping back and stared squacking at me hardcore, i mean she was going hysterical and challening me to a fight, all 5-10 and 190lbs of me, right there to my face. I respect that so I released the baby and crouched down into my fight stance, with the strainer in one hand and a paper plate in the other.
She’s standing in front of me with her wings spread, squacking bloody murder, flying a off the ground every few seconds trying to intimidate me. So I advanced and started swinging the strainer at her. She retreated like a punk and started running towards the baby, who was running toward the bushes.
So she didn’t really want to fight after all, and was just trying to distract me from the baby all along. So I’m trying to re-capture the baby, but every time I caught it under strainer, the momma would fly toward me and I had to use the strainer to swat her.
Fighting the momma and capturing the baby at the same time proved to be impossible, and the baby made it to the bushes, effectively escaping.
Then the momma flew away like a coward, just made a b-line out of there without her babies. I was scouraging around, trying to find the other babies, when suddenly I heard a flock of ducks making what sounded like a fucking war cry off in the distance.
I got the FUCK out of there and ran back in the house just moments before a flock of about a dozen fucking ducks descended on my lawn. I don’t know what would have happened but I don’t think I could have taken them all if they started pecking at my head.
I respected the momma duck’s bravery up until she got her whole fucking crew involved. Jesus christ man, ducks are fucking hardcore. If the momma and her babies are dumb enough to come back we will go for round 2 and I will bring a second strainer to fight with…