Mystery duck (revealed!)

["John Layton" <>]

About ten years back, there was a whistling duck (wandering or plumed, don't remember) on Kellys Swamp. It was suggested to me that it may have been an escapee from the National Zoo. Now, I don't know if the zoo keeps Egyptian Geese but the ones John Brannan saw were in the vicinity of the zoo, I think. If that's the case, I hope no more escape, because they can readily establish in some areas. One time, I was hunting with a rancher in southern Californian when he shot an Egyptian Goose.

 

"Why don't we retrieve it?" I asked. "Because, (and I've sanitised his reply) the jolly foreign things taste like mud."

 

John K. Layton