Chase duck family is offered a new home (From Malvern Gazette)

Chase duck family is offered a new home

4:50pm Monday 20th July 2009

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A FAMILY of ducks who unexpectedly took up residence at The Chase Technology College have been given a new home at the Three Counties Showground.

Students and staff were surprised to find a duck had taken a liking to an area of the school quadrangle that had been converted into a garden ahead of the school’s participation in this years malvern Autumn Show.

They were in for an even bigger shock when a fleet of ducklings appeared soon after and took up residence in the garden with their mother.

The school’s ground staff took up some of the paving slabs and dug them a pond, and some of the students made a duck house for the new arrivals.

The school has been told the ducklings are now old enough to be moved, and so approached Three Counties education officer Sue Hodgson-Jones about the possibility of re-homing the whole family on the lake at the showground in Malvern.

Mrs Hodgson-Jones and other staff from the showground have now visited the school to collect the ducks.

“It is beautiful down on our lake and there are other ducks down there so they won’t be alone,” she said. “That will be their permanent new home, assuming they like it and decide to stay.”

Mrs Hodgson-Jones said no-one had any idea how the ducks came to set up home at the school.

“They just suddenly appeared,” she said. “There is no reason why they should have been there, as there is no water nearby.”

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