ruthhope
Free Ranging
I love all ducks! My own are muscovy and pekin but I like seeing wild ducks on the pool and ponds near home. Wild mallards are great -- three dropped in at my son's yard this spring but we had to ask them to leave because of the risk of Avian 'flu. For a month this spring, there was a lonely grebe on a nearby pond. Then it was gone: I hope it went off with another grebe. In june two black-bellied whistling ducks arrived on a retention pond near me. I really enjoy seeing them all.