For the past 10 years, Ursula Cain has been feeding a flock of ducks that continues to grow and grow.
Ducks by the hundreds show up at her Dieppe home twice a day in the winter looking for a free meal.
Cain says when the ducks show up they can be impatient. If she's late bringing their food out, the ducks will come right up to her door.
“They know what time to get here to get their food. Usually around 5 p.m. and about 7, 7:15, 7:30 in the morning,” says Cain.
Cain has been feeding them for more than a decade. She's seen as many as 500 to 600 in her yard at once.
“They'll jump in my bucket, sit on my bucket. I can pick them up in my hand, sometimes they will land on my shoulder,” says Cain.
Cain says the birds help her get out of bed in the morning.
“I don't mind it. If it's not too cold, I do it anyway,” says Cain. “I like to feed them. I think they're nice little birds.”
Cain doesn’t feed the ducks over the summer. The ducks will flock to her yard in Dieppe again next winter looking for a free meal, one that Cain never refuses.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Jonathan MacInnis.
