Subject: Unrequited Love, Mallard Style
Date: Mar 21 22:11:24 1995
From: Michael Price - Michael_Price at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweeters,

It's Spring and a young Mallard's thoughts turn to --- well, the male
Mallard a bunch of us saw this evening was kinda unclear on the concept,
trying without cease for the ten minutes we stood watching (with some
*very* mixed feelings) stepping on and, when not head-bobbing, trying to
grab the nape of a foot-long dark-brown waterlogged piece of wood. He was
still at it when we moved on into the dusk.

Will the resulting hybrid be a Wood Duck? Has anyone explored this branch
of inter-kingdom mating?

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca