Meet social media star faceduck

A week old duckling rescued from a Shropshire swimming pool has become a Facebook celebrity.

The tiny duck was adopted by Jeanette Salisbury-Roberts after it got separated from its mum at the Wern, Weston Rhyn.

Now it has its own Facebook page and already has 100 friends.

On it, he says: "Hi I'm Duck. Born on the 24th June and abandoned by my mum. Rescued by a couple of weirdos who keep me in a recycling box."

Mrs Salisbury-Roberts said: "The mother had been sitting on eggs at a house being built just down the road. On Thursday, after the eggs hatched, the mum took the brood off to the swimming pool behind the house.

"But the pool was only half full and the tiny ducklings couldn't get out."

She and the builder scooped them to safety with a net and the family waddled away.

"Then we heard this cheeping and we found the tiniest of ducklings stuck under the tarpaulin. We tried to find the rest of the family but they had disappeared."

Mrs Salisbury-Roberts and her husband, Allen, took the duck in and he has made himself at home, living in a plastic recycling box and enjoying a daily swim in their pond.

"We enjoy his antics so much I thought other people would so I set himself up with his own Facebook page. I update it two or three times a day and his life is being avidly followed by his Facebook friends."

Mrs Salisbury-Roberts says she thinks the duck will live with them for about three months until he is old enough to fly away.

Although they call the duck "he" it is too early to tell whether it is a male or female.

"That is why we haven't given him a name yet," Mrs Salisbury-Roberts said.

Duck's latest Facebook entry says he is relaxing in the pond after a tiring photographic session with the Shropshire Star.