Today's photo: "Duck hiding in weeds"

That is a very common expression in the northeast US.

Acquiunk- Never realized that it was a NE expression. I thought that everybody used it.

dlowan- It means "in a long time"!

Phoenix, that is where I have heard it most often, it may be used elsewhere.

Hmmm - I assumed it meant a long time - but that is a little odd, is it not, since dogs live a short time compared with us?

heehee - not that colloquialisms need make sense!

Phoenix, I've been known to use that expression now and then.

Would be 'back yongs' in Oz and Britain.

Geese eat grass which was a surprising fact to me when I first found out about it and a big goose or worse still a gander can eat a surprising quantity of grass so it you have a few thousand of the blighters then its goodbye grass and hello poop in large quantities which in damp weather never seems to go away and you're right about the problem well I believe that a duck gun in a punt can do a lot of damage or what about natural predators there don't seem to be too many of those but these things can be a real menace and we should definitely look into ways of catching cooking and eating them.

Permanent ducks shouldn't be a problem, acquiunk. They can't fly when they are molting. Just wait a bit and herd the into the pot.

Yonks, walter, yonks! LOL!

Yeah, geese can be pretty messy -- especially in a park or on a golf course.

But if there is a more beautiful sight in this world than a vee of geese coming in for a landing on a lake...I've not seen it.

"I'll eat you".

Stops 'em crying!

Here's the 'Duck Inspector'....



... duckin' delicious!!

I'm guessing that there is some sort of trouble brewing here...

Nah - they look like old friends...

Canada geese
DID YOU KNOW?

Geese often mate for life, and can pine to death at the loss of their mate (Konrad Lorenz)
They are aggressive only when protecting their young
They are devoted parents and never leave their goslings unguarded
Migrating geese in Canada have been known to allow hitchhikers! Smaller birds have been found on their backs.

On the Thames I noticed that when Canada Geese swim in a group, the biggest males go to the outside to protect the rest.
Sorry some punctuation seems to have crept in there somehow hey anybody eaten swan which is a bird which is protected by law in Britain and only the Queen and some other selected nobs can cull them or maybe the Oxbridge colleges and lords of the manor can roast up a swan or two whenever they feel peckish and the plebs can only admire their beauty from afar and not imagine them nestling between the roasties on a baking tray lovely.

Are we against punctuation, suddenly? That book?

I'd like to try swan; they are most disagreeable birds and have vicious faces, yet another example of the 'looksist', shallow, woolly thinking of poets and the like.

More duck photos, please!