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While the nearby series of ponds in the wetland I was visiting were all still ice (and snow) covered, but for a couple of places the muskrats had broken channels, up on the trees and underbrush was a tiny pond of open water (given it's location I'm thinking kept open by runoff) which a pair of Mallards (and a flock of Red Wing Blackbirds) had found. Given the healthy state of the duckweed I'm thinking this spot has stayed open on all but the coldest stretches of winter this year. This Mallard seems less than pleased that I'd found him He and his mate began to fidget and mumble so I took off before they spooked and flew out of there -- tho the only real fly way would have been past me. The Blackbirds refused to rise out of the thick dogwood thickets for a photograph, but did treat me to the purest sound of spring for me, their long call.
(The Z9 is still waiting for parts.)
(The Z9 is still waiting for parts.)
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