Anyplace to go feed ducks?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any recommendations on places to go where you can feed ducks (or geese)?

[Anonymous]

you'll find ducks along the canal below M street in Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

That just brought back so many childhood memories. I feel like throwing the kids in the car with a giant loaf of Wonderbread right now.

[Anonymous]

We feed the ducks at Washingtonian and at Seneca Lake. Although I do not think you are technically "allowed" to feed them at Washingtonian.

Great Falls has tons of Geese to feed as does Catoctin Zoo.

[Anonymous]

In Old Town along the water.

[Anonymous]

We just went to Burke Lake Park in Fairfax to feed the geese today!

[Anonymous]

I don't think you are allowed to feed them anywhere. Sucks for me, because I'm a big chicken and will abide by the posted signs.

[Anonymous]

There are ducks at the pool in Constitution Gardens, which is just north of WWII Memorial and East of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. There is a nice spot by the memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

[Anonymous]

If I remember correctly - Rio in MD - unless I was hallucinating from lack of sleep. (only been there once and thought it was awesome).

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Burke Lake Park. I used to go there as a child, too.

[Anonymous]

Do NOT feed ducks bread. It is not good for them (not enough nutrition). I remember when I was litte, a bunch of ducks died because so many people fed them bread, so it's all they ate, and they died.

Maybe someone sells duckfood?

[Anonymous]

burke lake park is awesome.

if you're in DC, there's a little park with a pond at 14th (i think) & Pennsylvania. There are definitely ducks there in the warmer months, though I haven't checked recently to see if they're there now. it's a cute little park, though, with tables for eating and a little cafe that sells ice cream on warm-weather weekends. i think it's called Pershing Park. I was eating lunch there and fed a bit of my sandwich bread to a little bird and almost got swarmed by ducks and geese. (really amused the rest of the lunchtime crowd.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do NOT feed ducks bread. It is not good for them (not enough nutrition). I remember when I was litte, a bunch of ducks died because so many people fed them bread, so it's all they ate, and they died.

Maybe someone sells duckfood?

What IS good duck food???

[Anonymous]

Reston Zoo has geese to feed on its pond, and they at least used to have dispensers right at the pond with food in them that I assumed you were supposed to give to the birds. It wasn't bread, but it might have been the same food that they had for the other animals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do NOT feed ducks bread. It is not good for them (not enough nutrition). I remember when I was litte, a bunch of ducks died because so many people fed them bread, so it's all they ate, and they died.

Maybe someone sells duckfood?

What IS good duck food???

Good food for ducks: Seeds and shoots of sedge, grass, and aquatic vegetation, grain, acorns; insects, aquatic invertebrates.