So I'm driving to work and there's a duck walking down the street

[ET Awful]

No, this isn't a joke. I'm driving to work and as I pull up to my office I see a duck walking down the street. The duck is walking slow (even for a duck), and of course I, being the animal lover that I am, start to worry about the poor web-footed fellow. So, I park my car and run into my office to drop off my things, then go out to check on the duck.

He wasn't there any more when I got outside, so I assume he's okay. It's just that I never see ducks around here. The closest place where ducks hang out is at least 1/4 - 1/2 of a mile away.

So what was this poor duck doing? Did he take a wrong turn off the air-highway? Why was this little fella wandering around out in my neck of the woods?

Ah well, I'm guessing he was dazed from something and then continued on his way. Poor guy.

[stellanoir]

1. dunno but perhaps the duck was seeking your favor.

Reminds me of something that my son and I encountered last year. I've a very silly cousin who lives across the street and he decided that it would be a good idea to acquire a whole brood of turkeys. However, he didn't have the heart to clip their wings. So they used to fly over the walls of their pen and roam around the neighborhood.

One day, pulling out of the driveway, whilst taking my son to school we looked down the street and the turkeys were having a parade, walking shoulder to shoulder in lockstep across the breadth of the street and blocking the transit of an enormous 18 wheeler. The expression on the trucker was one of priceless exasperation. I wish I had gotten a photo. But instead we went and alerted my ridiculous cousin. So he had some serious herding to do.

Too funny.

[ET Awful]

2. LMAO . . . I would LOVE to see a picture of that :)

I'm just picturing a whole gaggle of turkeys blocking the road marching in formation :).

gobble gobble gobble

[stellanoir]

6. yeah

it was really bizarre because when they were in our yard they'd always be all over the place. (FYI turkey poop is very very very sticky and virtually impossible to scrape off the souls of shoes) But that was the odd thing. . . that the turkeys were having this parade. Maybe they were visually responding to the straightness of the road. Not sure, they never told me.

I did have a hawk swoop up from a lawn this winter. Don't know whether or not he was sort of spastic but his trajectory passed within inches of my windshield. That was very cool.

Ahh where would we be without our fine feathered friends. . .?

[Mutley]

3. we feed two different mallard couples everyday at my job.

they love it and they're so cute.

[BikeWriter]

5. Mallards are beautiful! I used to raise them...

and had a flock that would fly around my place sometimes.

[ET Awful]

7. In honor of this mornings duck, here is a duck who posed for me

last week while I was walking around Concord :)



Yeah, I've posted it before, but I love how it looks like she's smiling :)

[Mutley]

8. Cute!

I love Mallards.

Here's a pic of one of the guys we feed. He's the boldest one and will walk right up to you with no fear at all.

[ET Awful]

10. Yeah, I was out by the North Bridge in Concord, Mass just taking

pictures, and that lady and her mate just waddled right out of the river walked up to me and quacked a few times, then circled around me, walked on up the river bank, sat down and went to sleep.

I don't know if they were being friendly or were quacking because I was standing where they wanted to sleep :).

[stellanoir]

9. too cute !!!

It truly does look like she's smiling. Such a poser. LOL

[imenja]

4. they are all over the place here

and when I walk to the mailbox they follow me, sometimes several of them
lined up one after another.

[Goldeneye]

11. They mistake roads for rivers

and parking lots for lakes.

[BlondieK143]

12. Oh no!

Did you stop and get 20 pictures? :D JUST KIDDING!

[ET Awful]

13. Nope, and I didn't

grab its ass or kiss it either

:evilgrin:

[BlondieK143]

14. HAHA!

:rofl:

Are you sure about that??