The male mandarin duck was present in the same place today at 3:30 PM. This
is an impossibly beautiful duck, even surpassing the wood ducks and
harlequins which I thought were at the pinnacle of duck showiness.
In view of the distance from home waters, he's obviously an escapee from
someone's duck pond collection. I would expect the caretaker to be eager to
recover him.


Marvin S. Hoekstra
Sammamish, WA
marvin dot hoekstra at verizon dot net



-----Original Message-----
From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara
Shafer
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:32 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Male Mandarin Duck in Federal Way 3-7-08

Today we saw a beautiful male Mandarin Duck in Federal Way hanging
around with a couple of Mallards. He was there yesterday, also. He
is in a small catch basin pond at the south end of Celebration Park at
the intersection of 9th Ave. So. and So. 333rd. St. He is absolutely
gorgeous. Wonder if he will be there for very long!


Barbara Shafer
Seattle, Washington
bashafer at nwfirst.com

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