These ducks aren't a pest, they are your friends.
They will eat all your slugs and snails that are pests.
They won't eat your vegtables or scratch up any new seedlings like chooks
would. And the small amount of manure they leave behind certainly won't
hurt your garden.

Encourage them.

Don't take the pellet gun to them, the snails are much harder to control.

"simy1" wrote in message
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This is a new. In the past I have had to cope with woodchucks,
rabbits, voles, deer, slugs, and wasps (not mentioning the ever
present vine borers). Foxes, possums, raccoons, squirrels, moles and
crows usually leave the garden alone, and small birds in general
produce negligible damage. I stepped out of the backdoor last night
after dinner to find five ducks in the garden (they fled on sight). I
can see why they should be there (all greens and garlic planted, many
small greens which I am sure can interest a duck). I found no evidence
of damage, maybe they had just arrived. How do I discourage them?