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swalkr
November 1st, 2007, 04:09 PM
Have not a clue what these are.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1cCrzXriohydP253z0Hf6tOuoLJgNW_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1cCrzXriohydP253z0Hf6tOuoLJgNW)
quillabee9
November 1st, 2007, 04:32 PM
They remind me of a duck that crashed into our windshield one day near Natchez Trace, Tennessee, totaling the windshield as well as the duck. It was Saturday and we had to get towed about 50 miles to a place that was open. Interesting weekend.
Chuck S.
November 1st, 2007, 04:34 PM
Muscovy Duck, heavily hybridized. Here's an article that may shed some light:

Domestic Ducks (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domducks.htm)
Tina_B
November 1st, 2007, 04:35 PM
It looks like a duck that had a pheasant for a grandma and a goose for a grandpa. It's mom must have been the ugly duckling.
Tina B
swalkr
November 1st, 2007, 05:16 PM
Muscovy Duck, heavily hybridized. Here's an article that may shed some light:

Domestic Ducks (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domducks.htm)

These "ducks" are in a public park lake where I live. They always stay together, never socializing with the other ducks and geese. Strange for sure! Thanks for the article.
swalkr
November 1st, 2007, 05:16 PM
It looks like a duck that had a pheasant for a grandma and a goose for a grandpa. It's mom must have been the ugly duckling.
Tina B

This really made me laugh. Yes, they are ugly ducklings, quite unique.
swalkr
November 1st, 2007, 05:19 PM
They remind me of a duck that crashed into our windshield one day near Natchez Trace, Tennessee, totaling the windshield as well as the duck. It was Saturday and we had to get towed about 50 miles to a place that was open. Interesting weekend.

Quillabee, to say the least, I would image that was a surprise, not only to you, but to the duck also.
Chuck S.
November 1st, 2007, 05:49 PM
I would say something like, "I'll bet that duck didn't have the guts to do it a second time...."

but then I really wouldn't say that, would I?;)
swalkr
November 1st, 2007, 10:24 PM
I would say something like, "I'll bet that duck didn't have the guts to do it a second time...."

but then I really wouldn't say that, would I?;)

Agh,agh, agh! You bad!
quillabee9
November 2nd, 2007, 02:41 AM
There is a whole big story about synchronistic timing and place of that duck encounter of a close kind. Other things materialized as a result, but absolutely for sure: neither we nor the duck ducked. Ouch.