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Effects of feeding waterbirds :-)

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Subject: Effects of feeding waterbirds :-)
From: "Syd Curtis" <>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:18:38 +1000

With apologies to Ian Fraser whose serious and important question reminded me of this true story.

Two blokes investigating a lake in S.W. Queensland for its' national park potential, are sleeping in the open near the lake.  As bloke A tells the story, he woke during the night to hear a most strange sound.  It was all around him.  Never heard anything like it.  Switched on his torch (flashlight) and the mystery was solved:

    Hundreds of grazing ducks!  (Woodies, I guess.)  The ducks panic and take off in all directions, one shooting straight down inside the sleeping bag of B who until then was still asleep.  The effect of the cold muddy feet and sharp claws of a panicked duck on his naked body was as disconcerting to B as it was amusing to A.

Yes, feeding wild ducks can be a problem!

Syd
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