Pine Lake (Sammamish) had a semi-tame Mandarin male in November 2007, also
cavorting with the resident Mallards... No obvious tags, but also unafraid
of humans within 10-15 feet, and happy to eat corn from a feeder...
I'm not sure, but I think he was around for several weeks.
00 caren
ParkGallery.org
george davis creek, north fork
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:26 AM Marv Breece <
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In 2005 I worked for a company in Auburn. The company owner told me that
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Mandarin Ducks were visiting his Auburn home and eating dropped seed from
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his bird feeder. He gave me photos of 3 males & 2 females. At the time I
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remembered a recent Tweeters report of a male MADU on the Green River. I
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didn't take the single male report too seriously, but several? Maybe these
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were not escapees!
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Since I worked close to the Green River, I decided to take my lunch breaks
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at various pull offs along the river and see what I could see. This was
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between S 277th St & the Auburn Golf Course. On June 21, 2005 I saw an
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adult female Mandarin Duck swimming on the Green River with 6 very young
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ducklings! Mandarin Ducks were breeding in Auburn! But was it an established
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population. On June 22, July 1 and July 6 I saw a female with 1 duckling
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in about the same place, on the river. On July 8 I saw a female with no
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young. Below is a link to 2 photos I took of the female on that date. I
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regret that I have no photos of the ducklings.
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http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/166789514
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I put this info on Tweeters, hoping that someone else might be interested
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and want to follow up. I saw nothing more on Tweeters. I took a job
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elsewhere & no longer visited the river. And that was that. Perhaps the
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birds are gone. And perhaps there is a small population of Mandarin Ducks
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still producing young in Auburn.
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Marv Breece
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Tukwila, WA
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*From: *"Vicki Biltz" <vickibiltz at gmail.com>
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*To: *"Dan Reiff, PhD" <dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com>
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*Cc: *"Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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*Sent: *Saturday, November 3, 2018 4:58:51 PM
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*Subject: *Re: [Tweeters] A rare Mandarin duck is hanging out in NYC's
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Central Park and nobody knows how it got there - CNN
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I've encountered several Mandarins over the years, including a pair that
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had bred, and were considered escapees from a breeder or a zoo. This was
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in the Midwest years ago. I've always considered them escapees. Why
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wouldn't this fall under the same category? I've always ignored them,
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since I know bird breeders also breed them.
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vicki Biltz at gmail. Com
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Buckley, Wa
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On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:40 PM Dan Reiff, PhD <dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com>
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