But it was business as usual at a local stream called, appropriately enough, Duck Creek....
PARENTHETICAL GUESS-I'M-TOO-CYNICAL-SOMETIMES THOUGHT: At first glance, I dismissed Duck Creek as something dredged out as a kind of visual bonus to attract customers when this area was transformed from farmland to endless streets lined with endless brick houses, all remarkably similar. Nope...turns out Duck Creek was here first. It has, of course, been tamed a bit, with adjoining pathways, cement walls and little dams to control the flow.
But the ducks are still there by the dozens (sometimes, by the hundreds), along with miscellaneous other species of avian life...
They don't seem as keen on migrating to escape the chill as I would have expected. People feed them here; I suppose that has a lot to do with it.
Free meals wouldn't be enough of a lure to make me paddle around in that chilly water, though.
PARENTHETICAL PICTORIAL "TURDUCKEN" (*retch*) THOUGHT: I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but a flock of 'em hang at Duck Creek...so far as I know, there is no nuclear waste facility or Secret Gubmint Research/Torture Facility around here....
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see, there IS always something nice to aim your lens at....
Happy T-Day Scribby!
Dangerous day for little duckies. On the morning show they showed how to make Turducken for Thanksgiving.
It's a rather large turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken.
No thank you.
Happy T-Day!
We too went for a walk at our local duck hangout today.
Hope your ducks were warmer, KiT! These seemed kind of, well, discontented....
Better cold & wet than becoming part of a "turducken" feast, though!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken
Too weird.
"Mag" -- Did you follow the "see also:" link on that page? "Whole Stuffed Camel," indeed!
Nope, can't say as I did...must check that out though...Christmas dinner, ya know!
And carnivores think I'm weird...
I believe that creature is a cross between buzzard and mallard. Most certainly the work of the gummit, possibly at area 51 then dumped on Dallas to please W. You knew it had to be blamed on Bush, right?
JohnO -- my guess was that it was some kind of weird cross between a parakeet and Chupacabra. And yeah, I blame Dubya for it. It probably crossed the border and was granted immediate citizenship.
I think it's called a Muscovy duck. But my husband and daughter call them Chernobyl birds.
"Chernobyl Birds!"
Must, Stop. Laughing.
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