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Been feeding a flight pond for few weeks and been getting near on 100 mallard in each night.just before Xmas they have mostly disappeared even though the food is still going in.anybody got any ideas ?i am baffled they don't seem to be coming back

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Any flooding locally around the time you lost the ducks? If they can get natural food from flood waters they'll go there own way, no amount of barley or wheat will hold them.

Yep that's it Remi, been feeding a flood where good numbers have been but with all the water the duck are spoilt for choice. At the moment I have a few mallard teal and wigeon holding but I can't believe that a good numb of Shelduck are dropping in ! They used to be a coastal duck but am seeing them more often inland nowerdays

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