TO Mrs H Fielding (Letters, August 28), I would say there are two safe and nice duck ponds in Corporation Park, Blackburn, not very far from her home.

And, no, Mrs Fielding, the ducks aren't house-trained - as you would certainly find out if you had 80 ducks in your kitchen, not three.

Yes, 80 - that is the number I have counted waiting to be fed at one address on Rhodes Avenue.

There are times when you cannot see the pavement for duck muck.

It is people feeding them at home and not at the pond who are causing a lot of the problems on the estate.

The ducks wander about the road in the early hours of the morning to where they know they can get fed, sometimes making a terrible noise.

One noisy duck can make a din but the large numbers that wander around our avenue wake people up. My wife has to wear earplugs.

Ducks have been killed by cars, have caused minor accidents and have broken garage windows by flying into them.

During the mating season, sometimes three or four ducks chase after a female, squawking loudly, ruining flowers and anything else that gets in the way.

The ducks are a nuisance but the pond is dirty and dangerous.

If I kept more than 100 hens in my garden and let them roam about like these ducks, I would be prosecuted.

G PEACOCK (Mr), Rhodes Avenue, Blackburn.

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