[va-richmond-general] Re: Swift Creek Reservoir

Those ducks started out as just one duck with a funny brown fuzzy cap a 
couple or three years ago.  And I do think it was a mallard cross.  By 
now there seem to be several generations of crosses all with different 
coloring and "bad hair".

ANN

Al Warfield wrote:

>Linda and I also saw some coots at Swift Creek Reservoir last week. They
>were acting very strangely - chasing each other around, etc. They were at
>Sunday Park with some Mallards that were there because people were feeding
>them, and they gobbled up the food along with the Mallards. One guy I heard
>said: "Hey! those aren't ducks!"
>There were also some weird looking ducks with fuzzy caps. They looked like
>some sort of hybrids of Mallards with domestic ducks. One was almost white
>with some brown streaks, and another was darker, but both had  very strange
>round fuzzy caps about 2 inches in diameter that stuck straight out from the
>top of their heads by about 3/4 - 1 inch, and kind of swished back and forth
>when they moved their heads.
>
>Al Warfield
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ann DeWitt Brooks" <mikeannbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "RAS" <VA-RICHMOND-GENERAL@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:53 PM
>Subject: [va-richmond-general] Swift Creek Reservoir
>
>
>Ruddy ducks and one coot sighted yesterday.
>
>ANN
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