03-25-2010, 06:29 PM
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I enjoy watching Mallards too.
The drakes have a hard time of it, because the ducks are such tarts!
My dad had an article in his bird magazine (ornithology!) about the DNA of the chicks. They could be fathered by several drakes, so the eggs are a real mixed bag.
The sparrows are fighting in our 'apartment' in the roof dad built for them already. Reminds me of Christine's morning moan of the 'dawn scrap' rather than the 'dawn chorus'
The drakes have a hard time of it, because the ducks are such tarts!
My dad had an article in his bird magazine (ornithology!) about the DNA of the chicks. They could be fathered by several drakes, so the eggs are a real mixed bag.
The sparrows are fighting in our 'apartment' in the roof dad built for them already. Reminds me of Christine's morning moan of the 'dawn scrap' rather than the 'dawn chorus'