Hookrider: This has actually been going on now for several years with the ducks as I have posted. Granted the first year I gave them some bread when they walked up to the house from the creek. Then it became a routine. Every year they have come back. Just the two and the last 2 years they bought their wayward son with them. A couple of years ago I had painters inside and one of the ducks walked into the kitchen through the garage. I was working in my office and the painter hollered out there was a duck in the kitchen. I yelled back the bread is in the fridge. As you can see from the pic I posted they seem quite content while they stop over here. Apparently it has become imbedded in their brain while they are traveling that this is a stop over to rest up etc.