A stray waif

 A surprise in the duck run . 

A duckling !

Certainly not one of ours - we havent sat anything on duck eggs.

It must be a duckling hatched by wild ducks on the moor. And either it got separated from the mother , or it got washed down a small burn, and into the pond. 

What to do with it ? 

We tried it in with the poults , but it just cowered in a corner and got pecked. 

 

 

 

So it went into a box by itself. 

And what then ?

A post on an Orkney wildlife Facebook group found someone who was keen to have a duckling.