Please help me find the invisible duck before I go mad...

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Every night for the last two weeks my DD (19mo) has been raging because I can't see an apparently invisible duck.

She stands next to the head board of the bed (shown here ) and makes all manner of quacking noises and signs duck. I should explain that she doesn't do much talking, only animal noises and signing so far .

If I say "is there a duck?"

She points to the main cross over point in the centre.

If I say "where is the duck?"

She covers her eyes - which usually means hiding, or peekaboo, or the object I am talking about is partially obscured.

If I say "is the duck hiding?" She signs hiding again and looks all expectant.

I have not yet found anything to say after this point that does not result in a screaming fit of rage. Including silence.

If I deviate from the above script in any way she has a screaming fit of rage.

I am starting to feel like I am trapped in a 80's text adventure, the only outcome of which is a screaming toddler...

Please help me find the duck!

Hold the phone! Got inspiration from a comment - what if she's seeing a ducks arse like you see when they've bobbed down to feed, and she's trying to talk to you about it feeding or something?

The section under the cross is the duck bottom.

Why don't you sing 5 little ducks went swimming one day and at the end shoo the waiting duck out to its mummy?

Either that or invest in an invisible deerstalker hat and shotgun....

I'm sorry to throw a spanner into the works but all I saw was a fish!!!

I think fcr1980 has it, that's all I can see anyway.

I can see all those ducks, but the first thing I saw was an owl!

(With the ducks pecking the pillow as eyebrows instead, the triangle in the middle is a beak and the bits under the 'bends' of the ducks' necks as the eyes.)

This thread is hilarious. But op I feel your pain.

I can't see any ducks.

Possibly the best thread I've seen on mumsnet
The first duck pic made me

I saw the owl first two. The top half of one

I'm trying to did another duck to
Throw into the mix

Hah
I can see another duck!

Now tow oral out how to show you as an on phone

To show not oral
Its Monday

I think the duck she sees is looking down, so when she tells you it's hiding she either can't see it's whole face or she thinks the duck is looking for something that's hiding!

I hope she can explain a bit clearer tomorrow, I wonder which duck is the closest to what she sees!

By the way, how are you all drawing on the photo?!?!

op i feel your pain. we had a seagull and/or parrot up there... terrifying him nd making him scream... could I find it? ... I think I haave identified it as a shadow on the ceiling and a nick out of the woodchip thta forms the eye. he was begging me to put the hole in the recycling yesterday...

I see the seagull like duck and berties duck... the est are pretty good too but needed pointing out.

You are all wrong!

Think about Daddy Duck, only with long flowing eyebrows. The top of his head is what she can see. On the end board there are mad swirling loony toons eyes, but they are covered by the pillows on the head board.

Daffy Duck, not daddy!

I can see that Feijoa but it looks like ALittle's owl to me

NoTea Right Click and save the image, open it in paint (or similar) and doodle to your heart's content!

sunshine my earlier post explains the duck.

I can also now see a scary duck head.
Using the whole of the headboard, Can see the top of a duck head, looking straight at you top of the eyes, and big eyebrows (although why it has eyebrows is beyond me, doesn't need them) it is a scary hiding duck. Can't see it's beak. But enough of a duck to a 19mo IMO.

What does dd do if you move the pillows?

This is like magic eye all over again, I could see duck feck all in those as well.

Tell the manufacturers there are ducks hiding in the bed...ask for a refund!

feijoa that's my scary duck!!!

hmm having skimmed all those responses...I am left with the impression that I am heading to bed with an oral daddy duck with flowing eyebrows.

This is NOT a comfortable image!

mrsR please do post up the compilation! my head is all full of proto-ducks... all over lapped... all staring...

Had to lol at the thought of showing DD the picture and asking which duck it was!

I personally agree with the person who saw a fish. But DD can sign fish...so it clearly isn't the fish causing the problem...

I agree with the first picture - there are 2 ducks & they're hiding their heads behind your pillows. Move the pillows & let her see that there are no ducks!

I instantly thought of Daffy and well he's not scary. Mildly psycho, but not scary. And he is obviously pretending to be a yellow eyed penguin, hence the old man brows.

We only have one pillow (don't ask) and it isn't usually obscuring much...DD can usually see most of the head board to the extent that you can see the foot board in the pictures.

I am thinking of taking one of her bath ducks up and casually leaving it around in case she wants to use it to demonstrate how the duck is oriented and some bread in case she wants to feed it....

DH is going to be so very very impressed....

A compilation for ICBIN

icbineg ah, if she's seeing more of the headboard, then it is scary/daddy/daffy duck. With swirly eyes, if pillow was partially in the way that would explain why the duck was/is hiding. Or is the pillow the ducks bill?

Does she like the duck? Is it happy or sad?