Just to add my 2  cents' worth:
I first visited the  Bluffton duck on November 11. It was fairly skittish
at that time, and kept its  distance. When I returned on November 21, it and
the small motley group of  Mallards and Mallard hybrids with which it was
associating rushed out of the  water and onto the bank as soon as they saw me
walking from the parking lot  toward the lake. In fact, I had to try to shoo
the Whistling-Duck away from me  in order to photograph it--it was much too
close for my lens. When I tried to  walk away from it to get more distance
between us, the cute little bugger  followed me! Obviously it had become
accustomed to people feeding it during  those 10 days.
Darlene  Friedman
Novi,  MI.

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