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Donkees

(31,453 posts) Fri Apr 19, 2024, 04:46 AM Apr 19

Posh Mallard duckling one of seven recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof, NYC

Manhattan Bird Alert

''This Mallard duckling is one of seven that recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof and were brought to Central Park's Conservatory Water, where they now swim with their parents and will spend many weeks growing up.

8:34 PM · Apr 18, 2024''

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Posh Mallard duckling one of seven recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof, NYC (Original Post) Donkees Apr 19 OP

AWWWWWWW Skittles Apr 19 #1

It's magic! Aussie105 Apr 19 #2

''A silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave-forms and resonances absolutely individual and unique ... Donkees Apr 19 #3

Sweet! ShazzieB Apr 19 #4

Skittles

(153,193 posts)

1. AWWWWWWW

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 04:49 AM

Apr 19

SO FLOOFY

Aussie105

(5,432 posts)

2. It's magic!

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 06:39 AM

Apr 19

From a little disc of genetic material sitting on top of egg yolk mass inside an ocean of egg white, it develops slowly into this majestic creature.

Either magic or a miracle, and I don't believe in miracles.

Donkees

(31,453 posts)

3. ''A silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave-forms and resonances absolutely individual and unique ...

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 07:17 AM

Apr 19

which connects us to everything in the universe - a living Void which gives birth to all forms in the phenomenal world''

ShazzieB

(16,511 posts)

4. Sweet!

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:36 PM

Apr 19

I hardly ever see mallard ducks anymore, and I miss them. Such cute ducklings!

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