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Being temporarily evicted from my home while prospective buyers looked it over, I did a quick visit to the Margaretville DU location. There were lots of baby ducks everywhere you looked. One Mallard had a family of six, four had families of seven ducklings each, and one pair had a family of eight. There were at least 2 Black Duck families of 7 ducklings each. The Hooded Mergansers had 4 youngsters and a Wood Duck family had 3 young ones. There were also 4 Blue Winged Teals and 2 Green Winged, but I saw no young for these birds which were moving actively about in pairs. There are many Red Winged Blackbirds with the males being their normal loud and aggressive selves. I thought I could see at least 3 nests from the road side viewing point. A loud Sora made its presence very obvious. I saw no swallows despite the upper pond being covered with a cloud of flying insects. A muskrat swam right through a group of Mallards without either being bothered. Many Grackles were "fishing" in the shallow water areas as is usual here. John Belbin - Kingston
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