At 05:04 PM 6/16/97 UT, you wrote:
>This is great news! When I moved to Seattle four years ago, I saw my very
>first woodducks at this pond... I will try to catch a glimpse of the babies
>now...
>I wonder if they belong to the same beautiful pair I first observed? Would
>they stay in one place so long?
>
Woodducks are migrants but the hens will dependably return to the area they
were raised. The drakes, also, do this, but not as dependably.

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com


"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
It sings because it has a song"