My Own Long Island Ducks

No, it's not the baseball team, whose website you can find here. Baseball fans may know that Bud Harrelson helped found the team. These Long Island Ducks are based in Central Islip, New York.

It is also not the infamous Big Duck built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer to be used as a shop to sell ducks and duck eggs, originally in Riverhead. It is now owned by Suffolk County. This Duck building is 18 feet wide, 30 feet long and 20 feet high.

No, my very own Long Island ducks are this lovely couple, who, for some reason, have decided that my in-ground pool is their own personal vacation pond. They arrived this morning (amongst much "quacking") and have shown up for the past several years.

This was last year. They don't care whether or not the pool cover is off; if there is water there they are on it. They freak my dog out because she doesn't like to go into the water, so she paces around the pool watching them. I have never seen any kind of nest or egg or baby ducks for that matter.

So, there you have it - my very own Long Island ducks. Now, if they would just eat some bugs or slugs while they are here I wouldn't mind them using the pool!

Kathy Passarette, and Creative Home Expressions, is based on Long Island, New York, and offers interior decorating, home staging, interior redesigns and color consultations. For more information, please visit our website at www.creativehomeexpressions.com.