Ducks!!

September 2008
1900
On the grass by the Mill Stream in fount of the University Center.
I have just finished another horrid dinner at Goudy and some friends and I are sitting soaking up the ending rays of the day’s sun. The weather has been so nice these first few weeks of school so naturally the grass by the Mill stream is covered with groups of university students. As we are sitting in the grass a pair of ducks (a drake and hen) come and land in the stream. They are odd little creatures and it is interesting to watch them land. It appears as if they will have the most ungraceful landing but in reality it is quite the opposite. They come into the water in the most elegant fashion. A few minutes after the first two ducks land a group of about 6 to 10 more come and land into the Mill Stream. Once these ducks land another group with about the same amount of ducks comes and lands in the stream also! The Mill stream is now flooded with ducks of what appear to be al different ages and both drakes and hens. The ducks mill about the stream seemingly uninterested in the groups of young adults surrounding them. One thing that I find interesting about these ducks it last week at riverfront park I saw ducts that appeared to be in the middle of eclipse molting and none of the duck here seem to be going through that process.