Council city property housing manager Sharron Tipa said yesterday the council had intended to send Ms Swale a letter to tell her she no longer needed to return her flat keys by noon yesterday but had not yet.
The council had ''no problem'' with Ms Swale, she said.
There was a slight hiccup this month, however, when a council housing officer took photos of a duck eating from her garden.
Ms Swale (67) said she had not fed a duck since being sent a letter in March that told her to return her keys for the Taieri Rd flat.
She had lived in the flat for 11 years and was given the ''termination date'' of noon yesterday, she said. Ms Tipa had called her last Thursday to tell her she had photos of a duck eating from her garden, Ms Swale said.
''I couldn't believe it. It's not pleasant.''
Ms Swale told her son, who contacted the council wanting to see the photos.
The council released the photos to Ms Swale yesterday of two mallard ducks walking along the path of the block of flats and a duck stopping to look in her garden.
The day the article on the eviction notice was in the Otago Daily Times, Cr John Bezett called Ms Swale offering ''another chance'' on the condition she stopped feeding the ducks, but warned the 90-day period notice was still valid, she said.
She had not fed any ducks since being given a second chance. The inquisitive duck in the wide shot was not eating but inspecting some discarded seed husks, she said.
The husks were from the bottom of the birdcage of her budgie Les, a pet she had named after her late father.
When she cleaned the cage, she emptied the husks on her garden to compost.
There was no evidence the ducks had eaten any of the unpalatable seed husks, she said.
Mrs Tipa said she called Ms Swale to seek an assurance she was not feeding ducks.
Mrs Swale had told her about her about the budgie's discards and reassured her the husks would now go in the rubbish on cage-cleaning day.
Mrs Tipa said if Ms Swale did start feeding the ducks again and complaints were received from her neighbour, who had to have home help cleaning up duck droppings, the council would have to look at the matter again.
Another neighbour, Anne Marie Parsons, said the ducks regularly inspected residents' gardens, including hers.
