Hello tweeters,

I saw Mallards scavenging on dead fish on the Satsop River before. I've been told by duck hunters that Mallards that have eaten fish don't taste well.

Bryan Owens
Tacoma wa.
obryan214 at yahoo.com

Kathy Andrich <chukarbird at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Michael and Tweeters,

The Mallards here (Portage Bay) will eat the same dead
little fish the crows going fishing for. I have also
watched Mallards eat rotten dead salmon on the
sandbars or shores of the Cedar River. Yuck, a duck
with fish breathe.

Kathy
Roosting in S King County

--- Michael Hobbs wrote:

> Tweets -
>
> My dentist had an interesting bird tale for me
> today.
>
> He has a small koi pond, and he reported once seeing
> a Mallard land there,
> hop into the pond, somehow manage to catch baby koi.
>
> Specifically, what he reported was that the Mallard
> managed to flip the baby
> koi out of the water onto the grass. Later, the
> Mallard came up and ate
> them off the grass. He also mentioned that the
> babies seldom thrive, so
> they may not have been 100%.
>
> I've never heard anything like that. Also, the BNA
> account does not seem to
> mention fish as part of the Mallard diet (though it
> does mention aquatic
> invertebrates).
>
> Weird.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
>
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