[Mnbird] A funny thing happened on the way to the for, um, est

[Pamela Freeman]

So... behind my dad's twin home villa thing in quasi suburbia Lino Lakes is
a wet thicket of mostly, sadly, buckthorn, and various other low small
trees and bush stuff.
The other evening I caught a movement and flash of color where normally
there is none of either, and saw, to my delight a parade of wood ducks
making their way through the stuff.
I counted... one male, two... three... two females, another, another male,
another female, and another pair, ten in all, five pairs of wood ducks
marching determinedly marching through the thicket
looking this way and that, checking it out for suitable real estate, I
suppose. None of the small stick like trees back there looks to me like
something a wood duck might make use of, but,
I am not a wood duck.
There IS a pond not far, really on each end of the strip of "woods" but
there are no trees bigger around than maybe three or four inches, really.
Maybe some farther in, where it is drier, perhaps.
And where there are yards butting up, on the other side, there are larger
trees.
Anyway. It was a very amusing sight. I have never before seen a troupe of
wood ducks like that!

Add to the northern leopard frogs clucking last week in Oak Grove, northern
Anoka county that comb-rasping call of the chorus frog now.
The duet is indescribably spring, all it needs is the soprano of the spring
peeper as an accent note and perhaps the trill of the American toad.
- Pamela
Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to
accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Unknown

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
― Aldo Leopold
I am one who cannot.
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