I know that I have been very slack the last couple of weeks and I feel really bad about that but I promise to get back into posting twice a week straight away. We had one of our short films playing in a film festival down past Melbourne (Peninsula Short Film Festival) so we were preoccupied with that (we won Best Animation by the way, YAY!!) and then last Wednesday Klutch was going for a run and found a baby Australian Wood Duck about to be attacked by two magpies! He was just in time and she hadn’t been harmed just shaken up. Her mother and siblings were nowhere to be seen so he had to bring her home.
The photo at the top is Matilda. She is so beautiful and sweet and completely fearless. She is so tiny that we can’t put her outside so she is living in our lounge room (thank goodness for timber floors) and at night we set up a little bedroom for her in the bathroom. Klutch and I are both completely besotted with her!! Look how cute she is! How could you not love her? She loves snuggling up on us to sleep and follows us around. Having a tiny little duckling run towards you when you get home is a pretty great way to be greeted.
Luckily we haven’t had to leave her alone very much since we got her but when we did she would cry and the same at night in the bathroom so we thought it would be good for her to have a friend.
A local vet directed us to a farm who had some Muscovy ducklings so by lunchtime Saturday, we had two ducklings and Matilda had a sister (who could possibly turn out to be a boy but we hope not).
Adelaide is the same age as Matilda but twice her size but they loved each other instantly. Adelaide follows Matilda everywhere and they preen each other, eat together and snuggle up to sleep together. Adelaide is so patient with Matilda who jumps all over her and usually wakes her up. She is also very sweet and although she moves around slower that Matilda (who runs around like a crazy person) Adelaide has just started copying Matilda when she races across the room and is catching up pretty well.
I know this last photo is a bit fuzzy (thanks i-phone) but I had to add it. Klutch invented hand cave, where, as the name the suggests, you make a cave out of your hands and then place ducklings on your chest at rest time and they will snuggle up in there and sleep. Matilda usually goes in head first because she like to rest her beak between our fingers so her head won’t fall to the side and wake her up.
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