Cross Street resident gets crafty

Candace Newton has plans to get crafty.

When she hadn't heard back from the city by noon on March 14, she decided to make signs herself to help protect the ducks.

She said she plans to put one at the top of the street and one where the ducks congregate.

“We don't know if (the city is) going to keep them up or take them down, but we're going to put them up,” she said.

After contacting Wild At Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre, she learned that people have been expressing their concern for the Cross Street ducks for quite some time.
Co-co-ordinator Kristy Bailey said the Killer's Crossing-area roadside results in numerous complaints.

“Anytime someone calls about a duck, you can bet it's in that part of town,” she said.

Bailey said people should refrain from feeding any sort of wildlife, particularly the ducks in this high-traffic, high-incident area.

“It's a dangerous place to be feeding them,” she said.

Ministry of Natural Resources regulations state that animals cannot be moved from their home area, so that means the only solution is to encourage them to leave on their own. That will only happen when food is no longer readily available, Bailey said.

Posted by Arron Pickard