Hi
we have done the same thing for the past few years, its harder with just one pond, i got them flying as soon as i could by bagging them off with a
feed bag, the pond has high trees round most of it but one part had a thorn hedge a bit lower, i drove them out over the hedge and stood the guns
in the field and briefed out only sporting birds to be shot some can be poor flyers.
If you have wild ducks building i would watch the feed and make sure the reared birds get fed or they can get thin very fast, i think reared ducks on a
flight pond which is good in a evening flight can be a