>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

Michael, I think Howard Hughes, with all his millions, experimented with
this. Do any of you at-least-middle-aged tweeters remember the Spruce
Goose?

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