Canute Posted March 15, 2020 Share #31 Posted March 15, 2020 Do you have Mallard ducks in your area? They may have been playing stranger danger around Vac-U-Duck. 😁 mtaylor, thibaultron and popeye the sailor 3 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osmosis Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share #32 Posted March 15, 2020 We see them occasionally but I guess it is just a seasonal thing. mtaylor, thibaultron, popeye the sailor and 1 other 4 Quote Art Smith Current Build: E.M. White Guide Canoe - Canoe Model Kits, San Francisco Cross Section - Artesania Latina Completed: Peterboro Canoe - Midwest , Hobbyzone Organizers and Building Jigs, Guns of History Naval Smoothbore, 1st Build: Midwest Sakonnet Daysailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hof00 Posted March 15, 2020 Share #33 Posted March 15, 2020 He looks very handsome indeed!! The locals look rather scruffy.... 🙂 Cheers....HOF. mtaylor, thibaultron, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Completed Builds: A/L Bluenose II A/L Mare Nostrum Sergal/Mantua Cutty Sark A/L Pen Duick A/L Fulgaro Amati/Partworks 1/200 Bismarck A/L Sanson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmagna Posted March 15, 2020 Share #34 Posted March 15, 2020 Looks like a very successful voyage. The native ducks reacted pretty much as I expected even though I am kind of surprised they went ashore instead of just swimming further out into the lake. Congratulations Art thibaultron, popeye the sailor, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Lou Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence Currant builds: Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold) Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral) 1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin) Currant research/scratchbuild: Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes Non ship build log: 1/35th UH-1H Huey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osmosis Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share #35 Posted March 15, 2020 (edited) Thanks, We sort of had them pinned in a small corner and that was their only way out. Yes hof the local muscovy ducks are scruffy to put it mildly. They are more like very large feathered rats in my opinion. The ugliest ducks I have ever seen. Edited March 15, 2020 by Osmosis Canute, thibaultron, popeye the sailor and 2 others 5 Quote Art Smith Current Build: E.M. White Guide Canoe - Canoe Model Kits, San Francisco Cross Section - Artesania Latina Completed: Peterboro Canoe - Midwest , Hobbyzone Organizers and Building Jigs, Guns of History Naval Smoothbore, 1st Build: Midwest Sakonnet Daysailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canute Posted March 16, 2020 Share #36 Posted March 16, 2020 We get Mallards, Canada geese and a number of wading birds (herons, egrets mostly). mtaylor, thibaultron and popeye the sailor 3 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye the sailor Posted March 19, 2020 Share #37 Posted March 19, 2020 great job! he will be lonely though.......it will depend on the breed and whether or not they will accept him into their flock...or gaggle, but I think that's only for Geese. usually there is only one male. he protects the flock. this is the closest he would come to me......I'm out in the water with the camera. when he got the impression that I wasn't coming any closer, he went back to his brood. that's him by the rock. yours likely has a more male appearance....so fraternization might be a problem. decoys are used during hunting to lure other ducks to join them.......I'm sure you know that, but that's the reason they work.......they see one on the water, so they come in to check them out. if it's a female, they may get closer to flirt. I took a bunch of pictures at the Pascataquag { I may have misspelt} river by our home in 2015. the river was really low then, and the admiral and I went to check it out. brought back memories of when I was a kid.......run down the river to swim, fish........or catch critters Canute, GrandpaPhil and thibaultron 3 Quote I yam wot I yam! finished builds: Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build Billing T78 Norden in dry dock: Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20 Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400 Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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