Yesterday we solved the mystery that’s been Puzzling us For the last week or so. There’s been a pair of very well behaved ducks down at our favorite Swimming hole on the lower Huntington. We walk there most days with the dogs. Every day for the last week or so this pair of ducks has been paddling around without being bothered at all by our presents or the dogs. Were used to seeing ducks all the time… But they generally fly away when you walk up. We learn from our neighbor Jane that they are refugees from up the hill. There is a family that keeps ducks as pets… Unfortunately they were being picked off one by one by something large… Perhaps a bobcat or a coyote. Only this pair remained… So the owner brought them down to live in Huntington. They’ve been adopted by one of the local landowners. Which I guess is a good thing because these duck don’t migrate.. They’ll need a heated space for the winter.

It’s nice to have them as neighbors

Nite all, nite sam

-me