--- In [email protected], "sean neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Canals and waterways9a. Posted by: "Larry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] lmentzer > Fri Sep 7, 2007 5:33 am (PST) > Sean, We were on a trip in April, and saw maybe what you were > describing...if you go to our website for the K&A trip at > narrowboat.us and click on our photo collection, and find image 1419 > which is on date 4/29/07 (sorry I don't know how to link it to > here), you'll see a weird goose/duck with an orange beak... > > Is this maybe what you saw? > > Larry > > > That's a domestic Muscovy duck - the wild ones, which are black with a > green gloss, come from Mexico and points south, presumably named by the > same geographically challenged person who named the West Indies. Wild > ones have white wing-patches and domestic ones can be piebald, or, like > this one, all-white. Their mothers may think they're charming but not > me! > > Sean > Thanks Sean and Graham...we were amazed at the amount of wildlife we saw on the cut...it was a pleasant surprise...considering we were only often a few hundred yards from civilization...the memories of our trip are terrific...I'm not sure we'll come back and do the K&A again...it was pretty tough by the end of our two weeks, just too many locks for us novice "crazy Americans", but we'll always remember the beauty of the canal and the great people we met on our trip.
Larry
