One of Our Ducks is Missing

Its more than one actually. Its lots.

Over the last few years the duck population in London has dropped and ducks have been reported M.I.A.

The 'Bird Recorder' (one of the best job titles I have heard of) for Wandsworth and Tooting Common said natural predators were likely to cause population changes. He said: "They can be taken by pike and large carp, herons or foxes." Ahhh but this is not what the London Wildcare Trust thinks. According to them people have been nicking the ducks and eating them. Ted Burden, head of the trust, said: "People are taking them for their own table, or to sell on. They're not taking them to make pets out of them. They're ending up in the cooking pot."

Well I am pleased that during this recession people aren't dropping their standards. No nicking pints of milk and loaves of bread from outside the corner shop at 5am. No resorting to living off the contents of unlabeled and dented tins from the supermarket. No siree. People are refusing to compromise their lifestyle just because a couple of Yankee Banks fucked up on mortgages.

Its crispy aromatic duck time!
*I wonder how the sales of hoisin sauce are looking*