Marvin and Tweeters,

On June 21 of 2005, I observed a female Mandarin Duck with 6 very young ducklings on the Green River in Auburn. I had 3 additional sightings in June and July of that year of a female with a single duckling in the same area.

I can't say that there is an established population of Mandarin Ducks in southwest King County, but I CAN say that they have reproduced.

Also that year friends in Kent had several madarins (males and females) visiting their yard beneath their bird feeders.

A female mandarin can easily be mistaken for a Wood Duck. Who knows how many Mandarin Ducks are in SW King County?

Marv



Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Marvin S. Hoekstra
To: 'Barbara Shafer' ; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Male Mandarin Duck in Federal Way 3-7-08


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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