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. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]