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We watch a pair of Mallards raise young in a small farm pond every Spring. This year I have noticed the six survivors diving under the water. First time I've seen that. But then I had never seen Mallards eat fish until las= t winter on the Mississippi. Craig Brooks, Winona On 6/16/06, Larry Sirvio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saw two young mallards this afternoon in a small drainage pond in the > parking lot of Rainbow in Cottage Grove. They were diving for food. I mea= n > they were diving like a real diver. I timed one of the dives - they were > completely submerged for 12 seconds! - and then reappeared 20-30 feet fro= m > the point of entry. I know they were mallards because when I approached > the > pond, the hen mallard came out of some vegetation on the other side of > the > pond and swam to her kids. They went to her right away. > > Has anyone ever seen this kind of behavior? I actuall got out of my car > (unhappy motorists did not appreciate the traffic jam) to watch for a bit= . > Larry Sirvio > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net > --=20 <((c)=BF(c))> Craig Brooks "The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life; the sick, the needy, and the handicapped". Hubert H. Humphrey ------=_Part_9166_15161851.1150557335491 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline We watch a pair of Mallards raise young in a small farm pond every Spring.&= nbsp; This year I have noticed the six survivors diving under the water.&nb= sp; First time I've seen that. But then I had never seen Mallards eat= fish until last winter on the Mississippi. <br>Craig Brooks, Winona<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 6/16/06= , <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Larry Sirvio</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:lmsi= [email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote cla= ss=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); marg= in: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Saw two young mallards this afternoon in a small drainage pond in the<br>pa= rking lot of Rainbow in Cottage Grove. They were diving for food. I mean<br= >they were diving like a real diver. I timed one of the dives - they were <br>completely submerged for 12 seconds! - and then reappeared 20-30 feet f= rom<br>the point of entry. I know they were mallards because when I approac= hed the<br>pond, the hen mallard came out of some vegetation on = the other side of the <br>pond and swam to her kids. They went to her right away.<br><br>Has anyo= ne ever seen this kind of behavior? I actuall got out of my car<br>(unhappy= motorists did not appreciate the traffic jam) to watch for a bit.<br>Larry= Sirvio <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mou-net mailing = list<br><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br><= a href=3D"http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net";>http://cbs.umn.edu/m= ailman/listinfo/mou-net </a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br> <= ;(©=BF©)> <br>Craig Brooks<br><br>"The moral test of gove= rnment is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; th= ose who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the sha= dow of life; the sick, the needy, and the handicapped".=20 <br><br>Hubert H. Humphrey <br> ------=_Part_9166_15161851.1150557335491--
