I've heard from a very credible source that while driving, she came up on a female mallard picking at a deer carcass on the side of the road. Mallards are great ducks, aren't they?
>From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [mou] Black Dog Odd Duck >Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:27:58 -0600 > > > > > >Black Dog Road, Dakota Co., 1/1/2004 -- > >Well, O.K., a MALLARD is hardly an "odd duck." However I think I saw a >mallard hen engaging in rather odd behavior. Sighted a mallard pair >swimming in the open water below the dam on the east end of Black Dog Road >near Hwy 77. Noted the hen paddled quickly to shore, hauled herself up on >the bank, and immediately and most ferociously began chewing on the carcass >of what appeared to be a freshly killed drake mallard. This hen was most >aggressive in her feasting, shaking the carcass this way and that to rip >off shreds of still-bloody meat. Her mate would have none of it....the >drake (the live one, that is) paddled off-shore at a discreet distance and >showed no inclination whatsoever to participate in the cannibalistic New >Year feast. I had assumed mallards are strictly vegetarian. I guess not. > >Mallard was likely laid low by hungry EAGLES, a pair of which were fishing >the upstream side of the dam. Also paddling about on the upstream side of >the dam were 10 - 12 HOODED MERGANSERS. > >Large group of COMMON MERGANSERS noted swimming near the far south shore of >the east end of Black Dog Lake. A small number of CANADIAN GEESE also in >the same vicinity. > >The west end of Black Dog Road, near Hwy 35W, offered a flock of about 30 >PURPLE FINCHES gleaning seeds in the trees adjacent to the river path. >EAGLES -- juvenile and adult -- noted on the west end of Black Dog as well >as the east. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >mou-net mailing list >[email protected] >http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy a special introductory offer for dial-up Internet access limited time only! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup
