A few weeks ago we had a single female duck come to the pond for a day. We've had a pair of mallards here before for a day or two at a time and we named them "Betty and Joe." But they haven't been here for a while -- either an extended stay in Florida or they got a better offer somewhere else.
Anyway, we thought that the little duck was pretty cool out there, but she flew away when the farmer came by with his combine taking down the corn on the field out back. In fact, I thought it was so cool that I went out and bought some decoys and put them out there. They float around down at one end of the pond and it looks pretty natural. Check this out. There are four of them in all.
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Every once in a while, the winds will blow real strong, like they did the other day, and one of the ducks will go rogue and end up down at some other end of the pond.
But generally they are down at the end by the reeds.
They must look pretty good because the neighbor boys were running down the road the other day and stopped and pointed to them and were talking to each other. I just hope that one of the local coyotes or the red fox that's hanging around the area doesn't mistake them for the real thing. What a surprise that would be for them.
Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling.(Russian proverb)
Hooah
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