They’re colorful, and some might say cute, but a Pasco County couple doesn’t enjoy what flocks of ducks are leaving behind at their home.

In the Summer Lakes subdivision, there are five lakes that wrap around homes.

The water is attractive to homeowners and ducks.

Patricia Driscoll is on constant cleaning duty at her home.

“They’re landing on top of my screening. Which I just pressure washed last Saturday,” said Driscoll.

The prime offenders are Muscovy ducks who seem to find her backyard very attractive.

They leave messes in her yard, and on top of her pool cage, which contaminates her pool.

“Their body weight, I’m afraid that my screen is gonna give. It is gonna loosen as my neighbors did,” said Driscoll.

She installed fake owls to scare them away. But let’s just say, they don’t mind the plastic tactic.

“I would like to see our homeowners association step in and do something about it,” said Driscoll.

“I don’t have a problem with them” said Jack Brockhurst, the President of the Summer Lakes’ homeowners association.

He said he isn’t getting a lot of complaints about the Muscovy ducks.

Brockhurst said they’ve been around since he moved in many years ago.

“They don’t do it on the trucks, maybe in the driveway. But when they go in the grass my grass gets really green,” he said.

Patricia would like to see the ducks relocated. The non-native species can be humanely euthanized, but federal law says, they can’t be moved somewhere else.

So if 75 percent of the homeowners are okay with that. A trapper can be hired to trap the birds and kill them.

That trapping is up to the homeowner, or homeowner’s association, to pay for.

Muscovy ducks are considered undesirable because they can transmit diseases and breed with native waterfowl.

They can multiply quickly.