[birdky] Baby ducks, Ring-necked Ducks still here
- From: Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: BIRDKY Freelists <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:06:42 -0500
Except for the minor inconvenience of intense heat, walking the shoreline on
the corn side of 739 pond this morning was an almost park-like experience, once
I got through a short stretch of shoulder high corn to get there. A wide swath
of tiny weeds gives a lawn-like appearance to all the cornfield border. With
little to see on the corn field side except some Killdeers and a mother Mallard
with 6 babies, I decided to circle the pond. Not a great idea. On the wheat
side, the sprayer tracks paralleling the shoreline were still soupy muddy. I
had to walk for a long stretch on the flotsam left at the high water mark. This
sunk down with each step, sort of like walking on a trampoline. For my effort I
saw a mother Wood Duck with 9 ducklings out on the water. At different points,
both a Mallard and a Wood Duck fluttered up just ahead of me and pretended to
be injured. I saw one baby Wood Duck enter the water nearby soon after seeing
the female Wood Duck and heard peeping in the wheat after the Mallard's fake
out. I also saw the pair of Ring-necked Ducks again. They flew up from the
wheat, then sat some distance out on the water.
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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