We had no idea why he was hanging around. When the basenjis went out in the yard, he took off. A few minutes later there was more excitement when the basenjis discovered a full grown duck hanging out between our fence and our neighbor's fence. The duck eventually got nervous with all the attention and took off for the pond a couple of blocks away.
I didn't think much more of all the strange avian visitors. Although the basenjis seemed to think that there was still interesting stuff happening in the yard so they spent most of the next hour out there.
A little while later, I noticed that all 3 were intensely interested in something in the window well. This usually means either a mouse or baby rabbit has fallen into the window well. So I went to investigate. And in the window well was a baby duck. So all the basenjis got rounded up and into their kennels, while I made some phone calls to figure out what to do with the baby duck. He was unhurt, so we put him into a box. We looked for any other wayward ducklings and didn't find any. So we took him to the pond to release.
I don't think that is his "mother" but she let him fall in behind her and her duckling. And there weren't any other ducks to be found in our area.
The large hawk/eagle/? came back later in the day. I am not sure that I like him hanging around to much. I don't think he could actually take off with either of my basenjis. He might be able to take off with Akua. But he could hurt them. So I took some more pictures of him and then walked towards him. Hopefully he gets the idea that he needs to hang out somewhere else. No other ducklings found last night.
I think the basenjis have forgiven me for letting the duckling go rather than letting them catch it. Although they still check the window well every time they go out.
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