[mou] Diving Mallards

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Weston
t.net - Original Message - From: "Larry Sirvio" To: "MOU" ; "Mike Reiter" Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: [mou] Diving Mallards > Saw two young mallards this afternoon in a small drainage pond in the > parking lot of Rainbow in Cottage

[mou] Diving Mallards

2006-06-17 Thread Craig Brooks
--=_Part_9166_15161851.1150557335491 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline We watch a pair of Mallards raise young in a small farm pond every Spring. This year I have noticed the six survivors diving

[mou] Diving Mallards

2006-06-16 Thread Larry Sirvio
Saw two young mallards this afternoon in a small drainage pond in the parking lot of Rainbow in Cottage Grove. They were diving for food. I mean they were diving like a real diver. I timed one of the dives - they were completely submerged for 12 seconds! - and then reappeared 20-30 feet from the po