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Rest day for me today, so I just did my tummy exercises. Also I missed the bus I was going to catch so I walked 3 stops down. And I saw ducks!
Yep. Known as wood ducks but also as 'maned geese' - they are a mini goose apparently. Where I used to live in EBrunswick, just near the Lomond Hotel, they used to nest on the chimney. Apparently the chicks can fly too cos there was no other way to eat from up there. They don't quack, just sort of mutter. This is the start of the nesting/breeding season so don't be surprised if they set up housekeeping. Look for nests on chimneys and roofs and in trees.
They're very much a duck. Some people just think they look like geese. They do "quack" but they sound quite different to the Pacific black ducks.