no pics today...pic and clip up are from Jan. 10, 2008.....today: After Breakfast, paddled out to Bobcat Meadow with all the gear....Mallards were at the Hummock Ponds, resting in the Sunshine...found a seat on Fallen Branch under the Black Oaks nearby, and sat in the Sunshine too...Mallards gradually woke up, and flew over to where the Ponds were freer of Ice...picked up and made a circuit of the Meadow...Blue Jays, Acorn Woodpeckers, Ground Squirrel, Little Birds (Kinglets?), Ravens....sunny blueblue warm....Mallards have a way of moving in unison.....first Three or Four swam over to where the way was blocked by a thin film of Ice on the Pond...after considering for awhile with low quackquacks, Mallards flew up all together, and over to another Pond...then Mallards still on the Hummocks took notice, and swam over to the same location by the Ice, talked it over, and flapflaped over to the other Pond too!....I could have made a clip of all this, had the camera set up on the tripod, but just didn't think!....yesterday, there were Eight Mallards...today maybe Nine...oh...report of the White House Cat at the Trainwreck, and Ringtail Cat at the Warehouse...
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