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DUCK begins modeling career

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M’hijito snapped this photo of DUCK with his iPhone. How could anyone not love her?

Speaking the which, her admirer, DRAKE, dropped by the day before yesterday. His magnetic presence was enough to finally lure her off the nest. They frolicked in the pool, they frolicked on the deck, then they flew off, presumably to frolic far from human gaze.

I feared she had abandoned the nest, leaving one perfect white egg behind. But no. Before long she was back.

Windy City Gal, who has some experience with poultry, tells me that even though she seems to be attached to the nest with SuperGlue, she actually is slipping out at night to forage on small insects, grass, and the like. Particularly, WCG remarks, ducks like to eat slugs.

Ah. Now we know how our backyard was selected over all other backyards to host the DUCK family. The yard is overrun with slugs. You can’t walk around out there at night without squishing the things. The wretches fall in the pool. They eat the basil. They level the lettuce. They perform a slow-motion hora around the lime tree. In a word, after dark they own the place.

Go-o-o-o-o-o-o-d DUCK! Long may she and her offspring thrive.

3 thoughts on “DUCK begins modeling career”

  1. What kind of beautiful, slug- eating duck has taken up residence to assist you in your gardening & pool cleaning processes?

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